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600 BCE
Early use of bearings by Egyptians
The First form of the use of bearings was by the Egyptians how used logs of wood to roll heavy objects http://www.bsahome.org/tools/pdfs/History_of_Bearings_web.pdf -
40 BCE
The Romans
The Romans had adapted a simple form of bearings in order to better navigate the sea strengthening it as they did so. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/history-bearing-pan-nie -
Jan 1, 1500
leonardo davinci
created and used a bearing in his invention in the helicopter first known use of the bearing since the Romans https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/history-bearing-pan-nie -
Actual wooden bearings
Creating of wooden bearings made from Lignum Vitae in order to work as a lubrication device worked well in wet conditions and long life span. http://www.bsahome.org/tools/pdfs/History_of_Bearings_web.pdf -
Henry Bessemer
Developed a more economically friendly way to develop and manufacture metals thus leading to the increase and importance of metal bearings form wooden ones. http://www.bsahome.org/tools/pdfs/History_of_Bearings_web.pdf -
Isssac Babbit
An anitifriction allow was invented by Isaac Babbit leading to the creation of more modernistic bearings. http://www.bsahome.org/tools/pdfs/History_of_Bearings_web.pdf -
Henry Timken
started a very successful bearings company patent and developed the tapered bearing once again leading the way to more durable and well developed bearings. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/history-bearing-pan-nie -
Robert Schroeder
Developed the most modernistic and and u to date version of the Bearing with an interchangeable case made of aluminum and a thin layer of Teflon for friction resistance. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/history-bearing-pan-nie
