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  2. Herbert Frood - Wikipedia

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    From this marriage he had three children; a daughter Nida (b. November 1927), a son Herbert (b. 1930), and another daughter, Margaret born in 1931. He initially lived with his family on Manchester Road in Buxton, although later put their house up for sale a few months after the marriage. Frood died in May 1931, at the age of 67.

  3. Friedrich Fischer - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the worldwide success story of the ball bearing begins in Schweinfurt. Later, 1883 is officially declared the year in which the company was founded. 1890 - On July 17, Fischer received the patent for his ball grinding machine from the Kaiserliches Patentamt .

  4. George Westinghouse - Wikipedia

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    Westinghouse Air Brake Company organized with George Westinghouse as president. 1872: Automatic air brake invented. 1878: First foreign air brake company started at Sevran, France. 1881: Westinghouse Machine Company formed. The Westinghouse Brake Company, Ltd., in London, England, founded. 1881: The air brake company institutes Saturday half ...

  5. 50 Inventions From The Past That Were Amazingly Innovative - AOL

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    It wasn't a baker or an engineer who invented the bread cutting machine, but rather a jeweler called Otto Rohwedder. ... The system utilized by the ancient Greeks was first found in the Temple of ...

  6. Vincent Hugo Bendix - Wikipedia

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    He found a French braking system that he considered to be superior to any braking systems available in the United States's market. [5] In 1923, Bendix founded the Bendix Brake Company, which acquired the rights to French engineer Henri Perrot 's patents for brake drum/shoe design a year later.

  7. Timken Company - Wikipedia

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    The Timken Company is a global manufacturer of bearings and power transmission products. [4] Timken operates from 42 countries. The Timken Company brands include: Timken bearings; GGB bearings; American Roller Bearing and Engineered Solutions Group (iMECH); Lagersmit sealing solutions; Rollon, Nadella and Rosa Sistemi linear motion products; Philadelph

  8. 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.

  9. Henry Timken - Wikipedia

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    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.