Friedrich Fisher is considered the father of the modern ball bearing, having invented the process for milling standard bearings in 1883. Via a son who moved to Bulgaria to open the first ball bearing factory in Eastern Europe, Fisher is the paternal great-grandfather of modern conceptual artist Christo. A 4 point contact ball bearing A ball bearing is a common type of rolling-element bearing, a kind of bearing. ... Christo Yavasheff (born June 13, 1935) is an artist popularly known as Christo. ...
Company founder FriedrichFischer was born in 1849 in the German town of Schweinfurt in Franconia, between Frankfurt and Nuremberg.
The young FriedrichFischer, who inherited his father's technical talent and creative abilities, became an apprentice mechanic and, after some years of gaining experience elsewhere in Germany, returned to his hometown.
Fischer's machine made it possible to produce at one time a large number of hardened steel balls that were of the exact same size--they varied by no more than two hundredths of a millimeter--and geometrically perfect in shape.