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  2. Sven Gustaf Wingqvist - Wikipedia

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    Wingqvist bearing Sven Wingquist - oil on canvas by Oskar Spitzmüller, Vienna. Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (10 December 1876 – 17 April 1953) was a Swedish engineer, inventor, and industrialist, and one of the founders of Svenska Kullagerfabriken (SKF), one of the world's leading ball bearing and roller bearing makers.

  3. Isaac Babbitt - Wikipedia

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    Babbitt was born on July 26, 1799, in Taunton, Massachusetts.He was a goldsmith by trade, who experimented with metal alloys. [2] In 1824, he made the first Britannia metal manufactured in the United States, from which he sold table wares as Babbitt, Crossman & Company.

  4. Rolling-element bearing - Wikipedia

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    17th century - Galileo describes the functionality of a caged bearing [4] 1740 - John Harrison invented the first caged roller bearing for H3 marine timekeeping. [5] 1794 - The first patent for the ball race was given to Phillip Vaughn of Carmarthen, Wales. This is the first design seen with a spherical object moving through a groove.

  5. Bearing (mechanical) - Wikipedia

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    A ball bearing. A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion and reduces friction between moving parts.The design of the bearing may, for example, provide for free linear movement of the moving part or for free rotation around a fixed axis; or, it may prevent a motion by controlling the vectors of normal forces that bear on the moving parts.

  6. Hyatt Roller Bearing Company - Wikipedia

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    His solution was a roller bearing where the rollers were made from coiled strips of steel, which he patented. [2] The helical-shaped rollers made from flat spring steel were more flexible than solid-cylinder rollers, did not heat up and lock due to friction, and lasted longer. [ 3 ]

  7. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    The book was promoted with an included pencil, and "This odd-looking book with a pencil attached to it" [43] was an instant hit, leading crossword puzzles to become a craze of 1924. To help promote its books, Simon & Schuster also founded the Amateur Cross Word Puzzle League of America, which began the process of developing standards for puzzle ...

  8. Patrick Berry - Wikipedia

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    Patrick D. Berry (born 1970) is an American puzzle creator and editor who constructs crossword puzzles and variety puzzles. He had 227 crosswords published in The New York Times from 1999 to 2018. His how-to guide for crossword construction was first published as a For Dummies book in 2004.

  9. Magnetic bearing - Wikipedia

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    A magnetic bearing. A magnetic bearing is a type of bearing that supports a load using magnetic levitation. Magnetic bearings support moving parts without physical contact. For instance, they are able to levitate a rotating shaft and permit relative motion with very low friction and no mechanical wear. Magnetic bearings support the highest ...