Philip Vaughan

Philip Vaughan († 1824 in Kidwelly ) from Carmarthen was an iron founder, who invented the ball bearing 1791 and 1794 patented.

In 1793 he was a representative of the owner of the ironworks in Carmarthen, Robert Morgan. In the same year he married. One of his sons, also Philip, became a lawyer and mayor of Brecon.

Vaughan was later ( co-) owner of a tinplate factory in Redbrook.

• Inventor
• Born in the 18th century
• Died in 1824
• Man