Dibner, Bern

LC control no.	n 80015691
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Dibner, Bern *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Ukraine United States
Located	Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Norwalk (Conn.)
Birth date	1897-08-18
Death date	1988-01-06
Place of birth	Lisianka, Ukraine
Place of death	Wilton (Conn.)
Field of activity	Electrical engineering Book collecting Science--History Technology--History
Affiliation	Burndy Corporation Burndy Library Dibner Institute Dibner Library
Profession or occupation	Electrical engineers Inventors Book collectors Historians of science Historians of technology
Found in	Author's Leonardo da Vinci, military engineer, 1946. BGMI, Sept. 20, 2006 (Dibner, Bern (1897-1988)) SSDI, Sept. 20, 2006 (Dibner, Bern; b. Aug. 18, 1897; d. Jan. 6, 1988, Wilton, Conn.) Encyclopedia britannica, viewed via www, July 8, 2014: (Bern Dibner; born August 18, 1897 at Lisianka, Ukraine; died January 6, 1988 at Wilton, Conn.) Wikipedia, viewed via www, July 8, 2014: (Bern Dibner; electrical engineer, inventor, historian of science and techology, and book collector; studied at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; founded Burndy Engineering Company, later Burndy Corporation in 1924 [coined from "Bern D"] to manufacture his electrical inventions; established the Burndy Library at Norwalk, Conn., in 1941 to house his collection; in 1974, he donated a quarter of his collection to the Smithsonian Institution,where it formed the Dibner Library; the remaining portion of the Burndy Library was moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 after Dibner's death as part of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology; in 2006, the Burndy Library collection was transferred to the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif.) Burndy LLC web site, viewed via www, July 8, 2014: (Burndy Engineering Company founded July 19, 1924 at Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Associated language	eng