Background

Dibner, Bern was born on August 18, 1897 in Lisianka, Ukraine. Son of David and Hannah (Goodman) Dibner. came to the United States, 1904. Naturalized, 1913.

Education

Electrical engineer, Polytechnic Institute Of Brooklyn, 1921; student, University Zurich, 1936-1937; student, Columbia University, 1940-1941; Doctor of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute Of Brooklyn, 1959.

Career

Engineer, Adirondack Power & Light Corporation, Schenectady, New York, 1921-1923; engineer, Electric Bond & Share Company. New York City, 1923-1924; founder, Chairman of the Board, Burndy Corporation, Norwalk, Connecticut, from 1924. Consultant electrical equipment commission Smithsonian Institution.

Achievements

• Bern Dibner has been listed as a noteworthy Electrical engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Moving the Obelisks

    (Dating from the beginning of historical memory, the obeli...)

  • The Victoria and the Triton

    (The first exhibition catalogue from the Burndy Library on...)

  • Moving the Obelisks

    (A Chapter In Engineering History In Which The Vatican Obe...)

  • Heralds of Science

    (Textbook Binding Publisher: Watson Publishing Intl (June...)

  • The Atlantic cable (Burndy Library. Publication)

    (Topics include the expeditions of 1857, 1858 and 1866 and...)

  • Oersted and the discovery of electromagnetism (Burndy Library. Publication)

    (Great book on the early history of electricity and develo...)

  • Agricola on metals (Burndy Library. Publication)

    (Metallurgy, Mining engineering, Georg Agricola, biography)

  • HERALDS OF SCIENCE AS REPRESENTED BY TWO HUNDRED EPOCHAL BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS SELECTED FROM THE BURNDY LIBRARY.

    (The 25th Anniversary Edition containing a new preface. Sl...)

  • Heralds of Science: As Represented by Two Hundred Epochal Books and Pamphlets

    (This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.)

  • Leonardo da Vinci, military engineer,

    (New York 1946 1st Burndy Library. Octavo, 27pp., 18 illus...)

  • oersted and the discovery of electromagnetism

    (Burndy Library, Inc. 1961. Norwalk, CT. Softcover. Quarto...)

  • Oersted And The Discovery Of Electromagnetism

    (Book by Dibner, Bern)

  • The Victoria and the Triton (Burndy Library. Publication)

    (Very good condition)

  • Heralds of Science as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets selected from the Burndy Library

    (First edition. Illustrated. Covers soiled. 96 pages. stif...)

  • Alessandro Volta and the electric battery (Immortals of science)

    (1964. Franklin Watts, Inc., 135 pages. 1 lb. (8.5 x 5.75 ...)

  • Burndy Library History of Science: (22) Vols-Faraday-Obelisks-Electrical Science-Heralds of Science-Early Machines-Darwin-Oersted-Victoria & Triton-Rontgen-Galileo-Da Vinci-Galvani-Copernicus-Franklin-Zuroku
  • Moving the Obelisks by Bern Dibner (1970-04-15)
  • Moving the Obelisks by Dibner, Bern (1970) Paperback
  • Moving the Obelisks
  • Heralds of Science by Dibner, Bern (1981) Textbook Binding
  • The Victoria and the Triton (Ladder series)
  • The new rays of Professor Rontgen (Burndy Library. Publication)
  • Moving the obelisks: A chapter in engineering history in which the Vatican obelisk in Rome in 1586 was moved by muscle power, and a study of more recent similar moves (Publication / Burndy Library)
  • THE VICTORIA AND THE TRITON / BERN DIBNER
  • THE VICTORIA AND THE TRITON, SECOND EDITION
  • Agricola on Metals
  • Agicola on Metals: the Age of Technology Waited for More and Abundant Metals; it Arrived so Much Sooner Because Agricola.....
  • The Victoria And The Triton: Two Global Expeditions Reveal the Advance in Marine

Membership

Founder Burndy Library., 1936. Vice president Fairfield Youth Science Museum. Trustee University Bridgeport, Yale Medical Library.

Fellow Brandeis University, Pierpont Morgan Library. With S.A.T.C, World War I. Lieutenant colonel United States Army Air Force, 1942-1945.

Fellow American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Member Council History of Science Society, Council Society History Technology, Electrical History Foundation (chairman), American Technology Society, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu.

Connections

Married Barbara Druss, April 15, 1923. 1 child, David.

Father:

David Dibner

Mother:

Hannah (Goodman) Dibner

Spouse:

Barbara Druss

child:

David Dibner