The family's large house in Montclair, N.J., "was a sort of school for scientific management and the elimination of wasted motions - or 'motion study,' as Dad and Mother named it," the authors wrote. Their management consulting firm's expertise was used by major industrial plants in the United States, Britain and Germany from 1910 to 1924.
The Gilbreths were pioneers in the field of scientific management, collaborating on the development of motion studies and time-management techniques. Carey was the third child of industrial engineers Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth. In 2003, Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt played the parents in a modernized remake of "Cheaper by the Dozen" that was followed by a 2005 sequel.īorn in New York on April 5, 1908, Mrs. It also was turned into a 1950 movie starring Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy and Jeanne Crain. The book, which earned the French International Humor Award, has been translated into a dozen languages. The fact-based novel about the Gilbreth brood - six boys and six girls born over 17 years - was praised for its gentle humor and for being an affectionate tribute to their parents. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, who teamed up with a younger brother to write "Cheaper by the Dozen," the best-selling book that lightheartedly chronicled their life growing up in a family of 12 children in the early part of the 20th century, died Nov.
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