11 Facts About Bern Dibner

Bern Dibner was an electrical engineer, industrialist, and historian of science and technology.

Bern Dibner originated two major US library collections in the history of science and technology.

Bern Dibner moved to the United States with his family at the age of 7.

Bern Dibner later became the Burndy Corporation and was bought by the French corporation Framatome Connectors International in 1988.

Bern Dibner died at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, on January 6,1988.

In 1954, Bern Dibner was a board member of the American Jewish League Against Communism.

Bern Dibner was an avid collector of original scientific works and of books on the history of science, as well as thousands of portraits of various scientists.

Bern Dibner wrote a great number of books on the history of science, such as The Atlantic Cable in 1955.

Bern Dibner, who was fascinated by the combination of art and technology in the work of Leonardo da Vinci.

Bern Dibner assembled a library of works about da Vinci which grew over the years as Dibner's interests expanded into the history of electricity, the history of Renaissance technology, and finally the history of science and technology in general.

In 1974, Bern Dibner donated one-quarter of the Burndy Library's holdings to the Smithsonian Institution to form the nucleus of a research library in the history of science and technology.