Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth

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Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth

Lillian Moller Gilbreth, BA , MA , PhD , (* 24. May 1878 in Oakland (California) as Lillian Evelyn Moller ; † 2. January 1972 in Phoenix (Arizona) ) was an American author and one of the first as an engineer working Women who obtained a PhD .

Work and honors

She is considered to be the first female organizational psychologist . She and her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth were pioneers in the field of work studies . Their particular interest in time and movement studies may also have been due to the fact that they had a very large family. The books

describe their family life with twelve children.

In 1966 she received the Hoover Award . In 1984 the US Post Office honored Lillian Moller Gilbreth with a stamp. She is widely regarded as "The First Lady of Engineering" and was the first woman to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering . She was a professor at Purdue University , the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

Gilbreth served as an advisor to Presidents Hoover , Roosevelt , Eisenhower , Kennedy, and Johnson on civil defense, war production, and rehabilitation of the physically challenged.

Life

The German-born Lillian Moller married Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868–1924) in 1904 . At the beginning of their marriage they decided to have twelve children, which they put into practice. Of their twelve children, eleven reached adulthood. The names of the children were: Anne (1905–1987), Mary (1906–1912), Ernestine (1908–2006), Martha (1909–1968), Frank Jr. (1911–2001), Bill (William) (1912– 1990), Lillian (1914-2001), Fred (1916-2015), Dan (Daniel) (1917-2006), Jack (John) (1919-2002), Bob (Robert) (1920-2007) and Jane (1922 -2006).

Gilbreth also invented many helpful products to help the disabled or to make housework easier: the electric mixer and the trash can, which can be opened with a pedal , came from her.

Gilbreth, Inc.

Lilian and Frank Gilbreth jointly owned the consulting firm Gilbreth, Inc. , which conducted time and motion studies. The children were often involved in these studies.

Works

  • Closing the gap. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1967.
  • with Orpha Mae Thomas and Eleanor Gilbreth Clymer: Management in the Home: Happier Living Through Saving Time and Energy. 1956.
  • Then and now. School of Industrial Engineering and Rich Laboratories of Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1949.
  • with Alice Rice Cook: The Foremann in manpower management. 1st edition. McGraw-Hill Book, New York 1947.
  • with Edna Yost: Normal Lives for the Disabled. 1944.
  • As I remember, autobiography. 1941. (New edition: Engineering & Management Press, 1998, ISBN 0-89806-186-5 )
  • Cookery / Gleaner Memorial Home Cook Book. 1937.
  • The quest of the one best way: a sketch of the life of Frank Bunker Gilbreth. Society of Women Engineers, New York, NY 1990, ISBN 0-9625750-0-3 . (New edition of the work from 1935)
  • How can federal expenditures be reduced? : American Acad. of Polit. and Social Science, Philadelphia, Pa. 1933.
  • The home maker and her job. 1930. (translated into German by Irine M. Witte: Home and work: the life's work of the modern housewife. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1930)
  • Living with our children. Norton, New York 1928.
  • What's ahead for management. Kraus, New York 1967 (Repr. V, New York 1926)
  • FB Gilbreth: The Life of an American Organizer. Poeschel, Stuttgart 1925. (translated into German by Irine M. Witte)
  • with B. Frank: Applied Motion Study: A Collection of Papers On the Efficient Method to Industrial Preparedness. before 1920. (New edition: Nabu Press, ISBN 978-1-147-31419-9 ) (translated into German by Irine M. Witte: Applied movement studies: 9 lectures from the practice of scientific management. Verlag deutscher Ing. , Berlin 1920.
  • with B. Frank: Administrative Psychology: Die Arbeitswiss. Basics for determination and Introducing procedures that d. enable maximum efficiency with minimal effort. A manual for adolescent technicians, engineers, etc. Operations manager. Publishing house d. Association of German Engineers, Berlin 1922 (translated into German by Irine M. Witte)
  • with B. Frank: Fatigue study: the elimination of humanity's greatest unnecessary waste; a first step in motion study. Hive, Easton 1973 (Reprint of the 1916 ed.) (Translated into German by Irine M. Witte: Study of fatigue: an introduction to the field of movement studies. Verein deutscher Ing., Berlin 1921)
  • The Psychology of Management: The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching. 1914. (New edition: Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-143-03155-7 )

Overview:

  • William R. Spriegel et al .: The writings of the Gilbreths. 1st edition. Irwin, Homewood, Ill. 1953, OCLC 543095 .

literature

  • Jane Lancaster: Making time. Lillian Moller Gilbreth: a life beyond "Cheaper by the dozen" . Northeastern University Press, Boston, Mass. 2004, ISBN 1-55553-612-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Past Hoover Medal Recipients: 1966 Lillian Moller Gilbreth , American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  2. ↑ Women On Stamps - Publication 512. United States Postal Service , April 2003, archived from the original on May 9, 2009 ; accessed on May 8, 2015 .
  3. ↑ James N. Landis: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, 1878-1972 . Ed .: National Academy of Engineering (=  Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering . Volume 1 ). Washington, DC 1979, ISBN 0-309-02889-2 , pp. 89-94 .
  4. ^ Frederick Moller Gilbreth in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 13, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Frederick Gilbreth (1916-2015)
  6. ^ Robert Gilbreth in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 13, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 13, 2017 (English).
  8. ^ Mary Ellen Snodgrass: Encyclopedia of Kitchen History. Routledge, New York / London 2004, ISBN 1-135-45572-4 , p. 423; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ^ Interesting facts . De . Retrieved January 11, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Gilbreth, Lillian Evelyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moller, Lillian Evelyn (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first American female engineer with a PhD
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakland (California)
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1972
Place of death Phoenix (Arizona)