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4 unusual facts about Burndy


Burndy

The company, headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, has approximately 1,200 employees and operates three manufacturing facilities: in the northeastern United States, in Brazil, and in Mexico.

In addition to his association with the company he founded, Bern Dibner is frequently identified with one of the world’s leading collections of source material in the history of science, now located at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

The Burndy Library, a 67,000-volume collection of rare books and original manuscripts was housed in Norwalk, Connecticut from 1964 until after Bern Dibner's death in 1988, when the contents were moved to the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 2006, the complete collection was donated to the Huntington Library and combined with the Huntington’s History of Science materials.


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