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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.
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.
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.
Philip Vaughan was a Welsh inventor and ironmaster who patented the first design for a ball bearing in 1794. [1] [2] Vaughan's patent [3] described how iron balls could be placed between the wheel and the axle of a carriage. The balls let the carriage wheels rotate freely by reducing friction. [4]
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.
The first Kingsbury bearing in hydroelectric service, one of its major applications, was installed at the Holtwood Generating Station in 1912. It remains in full use today. Thrust bearings were independently invented by Australian engineer George Michell (pronounced Mitchell) who patented his invention in 1905.
1897 Tapered roller bearing. Tapered roller bearings are bearings that can take large axial forces as well as being able to sustain large radial forces. They were co-invented by German-American Henry Timken and Reginald Heinzelman. [56] On August 27, 1897, Timken and Heizelman filed U.S. patent #606,635 which was issued to them jointly on June ...
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 ...