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The Timkens of San Diego: Their Lives and Legacy

By Robert M. Witty
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By Robert M. Witty
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Rising from a blacksmith's apprentice to become king of the roller bearing, Henry Timken was one of the 19th century's greatest inventors. His early engineering of axles, springs, and ball bearings for horse-drawn carriages made him rich. But his 1898 patent of a tapered roller bearing revolutionized transportation and made the German immigrant and his family uber rich. In 1887, with his greatest invention still ahead of him, Timken retired to San Diego with his wife, Fredericka, and four o...