Manuscripts

Gordon D. Friedlander letter to Bern Dibner, with essay

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Description: Letter written by Gordon D. Friedlander to Bern Dibner, plus accompanying essay. The one-page typed letter requests that Dibner review an enclosed essay on André-Marie Ampère for publication in the IEEE Spectrum. The enclosure is a copy of a 22-page typescript that has been corrected; the typescript includes illustrations and reproductions of handwritten letters.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1975, June 2.
Call number: mssHM 83024-83025
Creator: Friedlander, Gordon D(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.

Sydney Ross typescripts and letter to Bern Dibner

Manuscripts

Six typescripts, one periodical with an article, and one letter written by Sydney Ross and sent to Bern Dibner. The collection contains three versions of Faraday Consults the Scholars, a lecture given by Ross at the Burndy Library in 1957; HM 83202 and HM 83202 a typescript versions of the talk from 1957 and 1960, and HM 83204 is a typescript of the author's prepublication edition of Faraday Consults the Scholars: The Origin of the Terms of Electrochemistry. Materials also include a typed letter from Ross to Bern Dibner dated 1958, December 9; three typescripts by Ross on various topics in the history of science; and an issue of Rensselaer Research, Summer, 1958, with an article by Ross.

mssHM 83202-83209

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Herbert McLean Evans letters to Bern Dibner

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Three letters written by Herbert McLean to Bern Dibner. In one letter, dated 1954, November 24, Evans proposes that Dibner print a catalogue of 289 works that Evans and his colleagues at the University of California-Berkeley Institute of Experimental Biology have deemed "the chief works or classics in the history of science." In a letter dated 1955, June 18, Evans mentions a shipment of Burndy Library duplicates. An undated letter is a social invitation to Dibner. Also included is a photograph of Bern Dibner and Herbert Evans, taken at Evans's home and dated November, 1952; the photograph includes a handwritten caption by Evans on verso dated 1952, November 16.

mssHM 82735-82738

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Cecil B. DeMille letter to Bern Dibner

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The letter by DeMille to Bern Dibner thanks Dibner for a copy of Dibner's book, Moving the Obelisks, and refers to the raising of the obelisk for the film, the Ten Commandments. The letter is signed by DeMille.

mssHM 83067

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Bertel Linder letter to Bern Dibner

Manuscripts

The letter by Linder to Bern Dibner relates to chemistry in Sweden, Swedish-German electrical engineer Dietrich Müller-Hillebrand and Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman. Also with the letter is a copy of a letter by Müller-Hillebrand to Linder (1964) as well as three manuscripts containing English translations of Bergman's and Swedish astronomer Bengt Ferner's work and letters.

mssHM 77765-77769

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Notes on the history of electrical science: typescript of book

Manuscripts

Copy of 51-page typescript of book written by Lyle D. Feisel and two pages of correspondence between Feisel and Bern Dibner. The typescript concerns the history of electrical science and includes chapters on the work of scientists including William Gilbert, Otto von Guericke, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Augustin Coulomb, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Hans Christian Oersted, André-Marie Ampère, Georg Ohm, Michael Faraday, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Wilhelm Weber, and James Clerk Maxwell. In a letter written by Feisel to Dibner enclosing the typescript and dated 1972, February 28, Feisel mentions earlier correspondence between the two and describes the Notes, thanking Dibner for his interest in the history of electrical science. In a letter written in response dated 1972, March 7, Dibner mentions a list of publications on the history of electricity and magnetism and invites Feisel to join the Society for the History of Technology.

mssHM 83072

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Henry M. Paynter letter to Bern Dibner

Manuscripts

In this two-page letter to Dibner, Paynter comments on Dibner's recent series of articles published in the journal Electrical engineering. Paynter asks for Dibner's "interest and support in another project" involving the "origin and development of the now commonplace electric circuit symbols." The copies of his notes are for Paynter's class at MIT, "Analysis and design of engineering systems" (course 2.751). This is an incomplete copy.

mssHM 75974

Gordon D. Friedlander letter to Bern Dibner, with essay

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