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@Emyr
It's what I heard on radio 4 but from that article, Friedrich Fisher made the first repeatably produced consistently sized properly round ones in 1883 in Germany.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_bearing
What I said is in the history bit of that article, with citation.
Imperial can gtfo.