In her lifetime, Lillian Gilbret was an efficiency expert, an industrial engineer, an inventor, a psychologist, an author, and a professor. Highly intelligent, enormously creative and accomplished, Lillian was the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the subject of two movies, and had a U.S. postage stamp issued in her honor.
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