Did You Know...
...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 3955240 | Multi-position safety lock joint, particularly for folding ladders A freely rotatable disk formed with projections is held in a given position by a spring. The projections and the notches between the projections are selectively engageable by a handle element to deflect the disk, upon operation of the handle element, from... | 05/11/1976 |
