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Bern Dibner
American historian
Bern Dibner (18 August 1897 – 6 January 1988) was an electrical engineer, industrialist, and historian of science and technology.
He originated two major US library collections in the history of science and technology.
Biography
Dibner was born in Lisianka, near Kiev, Ukraine in 1897.
Bern dibner biography
His family was Jewish.[1] He moved to the United States with his family at the age of 7. In 1921, he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Engineering career
Soon after graduating, Dibner designed and patented the first solderless electrical connectors and founded the Burndy Engineering Company in 1924.
The company later became the Burndy Corporation and was bought by the French corporation Framatome Connectors International (FCI) in 1988.[2] In 2009, Burndy was acquired and became a subsidiary of Hubbell Incorporated.[3] Dibner died at his home i