[Bell Historians] First use of roller bearings?

[Carl S Zimmerman]

An 1896 newspaper article about the installation of a G&J chime with swinging tenor bell (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96404646) 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?

Carl Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist 
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