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Philip Vaughan was a Welsh inventor and ironmaster who patented the first design for a ball bearing in 1794. [1] [2] Vaughan's patent [3] described how iron balls could be placed between the wheel and the axle of a carriage. The balls let the carriage wheels rotate freely by reducing friction.
Although bearings had been developed since ancient times, the first modern recorded patent on ball bearings was awarded to Philip Vaughan, a Welsh inventor and ironmaster who created the first design for a ball bearing in Carmarthen in 1794. His was the first modern ball-bearing design, with the ball running along a groove in the axle assembly.
Melinda French Gates has been getting close to someone.. The billionaire philanthropist, 60, was photographed this week holding hands with tech entrepreneur Philip Vaughn in New York City — twice.
Melinda French Gates spotted arriving to NYC by helicopter, hitting ritzy dinner with new techie boyfriend Philip Vaughn Ian Mohr, Natalie O'Neill October 30, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Richard Vaughan (9 July 1927 – 4 March 2014) was a British historian and ornithologist. Specialising in medieval history, he was Professor of History first at the University of Hull (1965–1981) and then at the University of Groningen (1981–1989).
Eddie Vaughn is Nola Madison's ex-lover, who helps her stage accidents and strange occurrences on the set of her film as a publicity stunt. He is trapped in a fire set by Nola, and later dies of his injuries. His will reveals that he is the father of Nola's son Brian, not her husband Owen.
The Young Philadelphians is a 1959 American legal drama film directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Robert Vaughn and Alexis Smith. [3] The film is based on the 1956 novel The Philadelphian , by Richard P. Powell .
The "Sussex Carol" is a Christmas carol popular in Britain, sometimes referred to by its first line "On Christmas night all Christians sing".Its words were first published by Luke Wadding, a late 17th-century poet and bishop of the Catholic Church in Ireland, in a work called Small Garland of Pious and Godly Songs (1684).