The hundred-year history of The Timken Company is one of the great success stories of U.S. manufacturing. Born in 1899 in a St. Louis, Missouri, carriage factory where Henry Timken developed and patented the Timken tapered roller bearing, the company moved to Canton, Ohio-in the nation's industrial heartland-in 1901. From that home base it has expanded to become a global organization and a leader in two key industries: bearings and steel. A major force in the early automotive supply industry, Timken was one of the large enterprises that made the United States an economic and military superpower and the American corporation a model for business organizations in the decades after World War II. It was also on the forward edge of the industrial renewal that has revived the midwestern economy and restored U.S. manufacturing to a position of leadership after the competitive crisis of the 1980s. In Timken: From Missouri to Mars-A Century of Leadership in Manufacturing, historian...