| 词条 | Henry Timken |
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|name=Henry Timken |image=Henry Timken.jpg |birth_date={{birth date|1831|08|16}} |birth_place=Bremen, Germany |death_place=San Diego, California |death_date={{death date and age|1909|03|16|1831|08|16}} |resting_place=Greenwood Memorial Park (San Diego) |occupation=industrialist }} Henry Timken (August 16, 1831 in Bremen, now in Germany – March 16, 1909 in San Diego, California)[1][2] was an inventor who founded the Timken Roller Bearing Company, later called the Timken Company. BiographyHenry Timken was born in Bremen, now in Germany, and emigrated to the United States with his family when he was seven years old. The Timkens settled in Sedalia, Missouri; Henry left the family farm to apprentice under carriage-builder Caspar Schurmeier.[3] Timken opened his own carriage-building company in St. Louis in 1855, and introduced several improvements to the carriages his firm produced, including his patented "Timken buggy spring", which made him a fortune. He patented the tapered roller bearing in 1898.[2] A year later, he established the Timken Roller Bearing Axle Company which grew rapidly as the product was in great demand by cars, trucks, and tractors. By 1923, 90% of the country's production came from Timken. His slogan "Wherever wheels and shafts turn", describes the widespread use for bearings—trains, conveyors, elevators, aircraft engines, even space shuttle landing wheels. He first retired in 1887 and settled in San Diego, California, but regretted retiring in 1891 and went back to St Louis. He later returned to San Diego for a second retirement before passing there in 1909. The Timken Museum of Art in Balboa Park bears his family's name, as it was established with his fortune.[4] HonorsTimken was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame on September 19, 1998.[5][6] Henry Timken was one of six inducted into the hall of fame at ceremonies done at the E J Thomas Hall in Akron, OH. William Robert Timken Jr., Timken's great-grandson, the retired chairman and chief executive officer of The Timken Co, and who was the United States Ambassador to Germany, received the award on behalf of his great-grandfather.[6] "Tim" Timken ushered his family's bearings and steel maker from old-school management into manufacturing's modern era. References1. ^{{cite journal |journal=The Carriage Monthly |volume=45 |date=April 1909 |page=21 |title=Deaths in the Trade |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfNYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA21}} 2. ^1 {{cite book | last = Foye | first = Gerald F. | title = Royal R. Rife Humanitarian: Betrayed And Persecuted | publisher = New Century Press | year = 2002 | pages = 42–44 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EaJ-dT36SmIC&pg=PA42&dq=Henry+Timken&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U3g-BP_ou7Mc4d_qToW0TA35XZY8w#PPA42,M1 | isbn = 0-9659613-3-8}} 3. ^Lubinski, Christina. "Fighting Friction: Henry Timken and the Tapered Roller Bearing." In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 2, edited by William J. Hausman. German Historical Institute. Last modified June 19, 2012. 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.timkenmuseum.org/static/media/uploads/About/collection_history.pdf|title=History of the Timken Museum of Art|last=|first=|date=|website=Timken Museum of Art|publisher=}} 5. ^{{cite news|last=Parker|first=Jocelyn|title=Inventors Hall of Fame Honors Timken|date=October 26, 1998|url=http://www.autonews.com/article/19981026/ANA/810260783/inventors-hall-of-fame-honors-timken|accessdate=September 23, 2017}} 6. ^1 {{cite journal|title=Around and About|journal=Industrial Distribution|volume=87|issue=11|page=16|location=Rockaway|date=November 1998}} External links
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