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In 1936, an ingenious New England inventor produced a tiny ball bearing to replace a jewel in a family heirloom. Winslow Pierce not only repaired his father’s watch, he founded an entire industry. His industry made possible instrumentation that travels millions of miles into space and settles softly and accurately on a distant planet; dental handpieces that operate painlessly at half a million revolutions per minute; aircraft that navigate precisely through darkness and adverse weather. Literally hundreds of various devices employ the millions of ball bearings produced every year. Some three years after his invention, Winslow Pierce led a group who founded Miniature Precision Bearings, Inc. In 1941 the group established their headquarters in Keene, New Hampshire and the industry was born. The fledgling company began to prosper, stimulated by instrumentation requirements for World War II aircraft. Most notable among those instruments was the Norden bomb sight, credited by many as one of the major technological developments of that era and one that greatly enhanced the effectiveness of the U.S. Army Air Corps. During and after World War II, Miniature Precision Bearings pioneered the effort to produce precision ball bearings on a mass production basis while maintaining a high standard of Plant I Keene, NH. Today, Timken Super Precision is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Timken Company. This relationship further strengthens our abilities to fulfill application requirements with quality products, produced in the most efficient manner possible.