Science is a new social force.
It is provocative and challenging, it holds the promise of great and distributed power and well-being, such as no other social force that has yet been conceived. Though some may see in it the signs of dull uniformity and the threat of utter destruction, it grows in vigor and in area of interest. To understand science is to know its dynamic history. Building on a technical foundation of twenty-four patents granted him for connector design, Dr. Dibner guided Burndy s growth until his retirement as Chairman in 1972. Around 1930 Dr. Dibner bought a popular book about the history of invention, Stuart Chase s Men and Machines, and immediately became fascinated with Leonardo da Vinci s extraordinary range of scientific and technical talent.