Canton-based Timken Corporation created this roller bearing used on the
8.5" (22 by 22 cm). by space shuttle in 1995. The shuttle"s landing wheel cone assembly orbited Earth 142 times and traveled 3.7 million miles. The roller bearing measures approximately 8.5"
other manufacturers became the company"s focus. Henry Timken patented a new building. a company to produce it in 1899. Henry"s sons, Henry H. (H.H.) and William R. (W.R.) Timken, took over the business soon after. As their business grew, they realized their distance from on steel market was resulting in high freight costs and shipping delays. They chose Canton as their new location and in 1901 they broke ground for their buggies and wagons. Making roller bearings for a tapered roller bearing in 1898 and started the The Timken Company began as the Timken Carriage Company in 1898 in St. Louis, Missouri. The company developed a new kind of roller bearing that they first used
vehicles from trains to cars to see the The Timken Company became an international leader in to space shuttles. Timken produced more than 6 billion bearings between 1899 and 2003.
