Start-up
The 17th century was the start-up period of modern bearings.
Galileo made the earliest description of the "fixed ball" or "cage ball" ball bearing, but it has remained in the paper design. For a long time, Galileo's idea of installing the bearing on the machine has been Not implemented.
It was not until 1794 that the first patent for a ball channel was born, and an iron manufacturer in England used ball bearings to manufacture axle bearings for carriages. From then until the 1850s and 1860s, ball bearings were widely used in children's carousels, propeller shafts, machine gun turrets on warships, armchairs and bicycles.
In 1883, FAG founder Friedrich Fischer proposed the idea of using suitable production machines to grind steel balls of the same size and accurate roundness. This vision laid the foundation for the bearing industry.
In 1895, Henry Timken designed the first tapered roller bearing, patented it three years later and established the Timken Company
In 1907, Sven Winquist of the SKF Bearing Factory designed the first modern self-aligning ball bearings.
At this time, China was not idle. During the Qing Dynasty, it was able to produce well-made rolling bearings.
From the 17th century to the 19th century, modern bearings developed for two hundred years, and the industrial production of bearings has just started
