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Hyatt supplied bearings to the Lincoln Steel and Forge Company for use with the axles of coal mine car frames, Lincoln's highly successful main product. [14] Henry Ford became a major customer. [ 2 ] By 1916 the Ford Motor Company had almost half the market for new automobiles, selling 577,036 vehicles that year. [ 15 ]
Vaughan was granted a patent in 1794 for a ball bearing that sits between the axle and the wheel on a carriage. His design has the balls running inside deep grooves, and sealed in place with a stopper. Bearings are used in most rotating machines in the modern world - found throughout the rotating parts in cars, bikes, trains, planes etc.
Henry Timken (August 16, 1831 in Bremen, Germany – March 16, 1909 in San Diego, California) [1] [2] was an inventor and businessman who founded the Timken Roller Bearing Company, later called the Timken Company. His family migrated to the United States when he was 7 years old. He began his business career in the St. Louis region.
The Santa Fe was the first company to have roller bearing trucks made by Timken under their passenger cars, much to the delight of their passengers, and the bottom line for the company. Timken commissioned the construction of a demonstration boxcar in 1943 that was first displayed at the 1948 Chicago Rail Fair.
Bertha Benz at age 18, c. 1867 Cäcilie Bertha Ringer was born on 3 May 1849 to a wealthy carpenter family in Pforzheim.She was the third of nine children. Her father, Karl Friedrich Ringer, a master builder and carpenter, and her 20 year younger mother, Auguste Friedrich, were wealthy individuals who invested heavily in their children's educations.
The Straight Eight was the first car in series production in the United States with a straight-eight engine. [1] [9] The engine had a cast iron block, a detachable cast iron cylinder head, and an aluminum lower crankcase and oil pan. [5] [6] The crankshaft ran in three main bearings.
He invented the first dirt-proof ball bearing. In 1897, John arranged a deal for them to join with a third-party investor to manufacture bicycles . Within a few years, they sold the business and, in 1901, used the proceeds of the sale to set up their own machine shop in Detroit. [ 1 ]
On automobiles, disc brakes are often located within the wheel A drilled motorcycle brake disc. The development of disc-type brakes began in England in the 1890s. In 1902, the Lanchester Motor Company designed brakes that looked and operated similarly to a modern disc-brake system even though the disc was thin and a cable activated the brake pad. [4]