Re-construction of a Thrust Ball Bearing, from a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Madrid Codex I, folio 101 v. The Thrust Ball Bearing is one of the innovations devised by Leonardo to solve the problem of friction, in machines with systems for the transferral of motion. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist and polymath

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