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Just wondering if the distinction between roller bearing and ball bearings is clear. Roller bearings seems to be common parlance for anything that isn’t a plain bearing. <div><br></div><div>A<br><br><br><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Friday, February 25, 2022, 19:10, georgebellringer@gmail.com wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv3123134652"><style>
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<p class="yiv3123134652MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Jennings in his book The development of British bell fittings
deals with various forms of rollers in bearings, eg p.65. So by the 1890’s
they were well known.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv3123134652MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;"> Bell-historians
[mailto:bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Carl
S Zimmerman<br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> 25 February 2022 17:48<br clear="none">
<b>To:</b> Bell Historians Mailing List<br clear="none">
<b>Subject:</b> [Bell Historians] First use of roller bearings?</span></p>
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<p class="yiv3123134652MsoNormal"><span style="">An 1896
newspaper article about the installation of a G&J chime with swinging tenor
bell (<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96404646">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96404646</a>)
makes the claim that this is "the first time the roller principle has been
introduced into bell hanging." Is that claim correct? If not,
when and where were roller bearings first used?</span></p>
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<p class="yiv3123134652MsoNormal"><span style="">Carl
Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist <br clear="none">
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA -<br clear="none">
- 19th c. home of at least 37 bell founders or resellers <br clear="none">
Tel. +1(314)821-8437 <br clear="none">
Webmaster for www.TowerBells.org<br clear="none">
* Avocation: tower bells<br clear="none">
* Recreation: handbells</span></p>
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Mission: church bells</span></p>
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