Gilbreth, Frank (Bunker) (1868–1925)

US engineer and management consultant. In collaboration with his wife Lillian Gilbreth he devised processes for breaking jobs into discrete segments, thus contributing to the foundation of modern time-and-motion studies. He established Frank B Gilbreth, Inc., consulting engineers (1911), and conducted a summer school of scientific management in Providence, Rhode Island his wife. He wrote A Primer of Scientific Management (1911) and Fatigue Study (1916). Gilbreth was born in Fairfield, Maine. Originally a bricklayer's apprentice, he became a successful general contractor in Boston (1895–1911).