biography
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| lived:
| (1831–1909)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Bremen, Germany. He went to the USA as a child and, disliking life on a Missouri farm, learned the wagonmaker's trade, and by 1855 had established his own carriage-making business in St Louis. Most of his patents were for carriage improvements, including the Timken spring that made his fortune. He also invented and gave his name to a tapered roller bearing. He continued in the carriage business until 1897, when he retired to California. |
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