Philip Vaughan

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A 4 point angular contact ball bearing
A 4 point angular contact ball bearing

Philip Vaughan was a Welsh inventor and ironmaster who patented the first design for a ball bearing in Carmarthen in 1794.[1] His design ran along a track in an axle assembly, known as a ball race, thus originating the modern ball bearing design.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Carlisle, p. 512.
  2. ^ Rowland, p. 160.

[edit] References

  • Carlisle, R. P. Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity, John Wiley & Sons, 2004. ISBN 0471244104
  • Rowland, K. T. Eighteenth Century Inventions,University of Michigan, 1974.