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...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 |
| 6260076 | Method of using an object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote machine types A method for communicating with a plurality of remote machines, of a plurality of machine types, using a computer system having a memory, includes the steps of constructing within the memory a first plurality of software objects, the first plurality of so... | 07/10/2001 |
| 5918051 | Object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote machine types An apparatus for communicating with a plurality of remote machines, of a plurality of machine types includes a computer system including a processor and memory a data communication means, coupled to the computer system and to the plurality of remote machi... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5832264 | Object-oriented communications framework system with support for multiple remote machine types A system enabling an application programmer to construct a plurality of application programs for communicating with a plurality of remote machines of a plurality of machine types, each of the plurality of remote machines having remotely accessible data an... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5732261 | Method of using an object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote machine types A method for communicating with a plurality of remote machines, of a plurality of machine types, using a computer system having a memory, includes the steps of constructing within the memory a first plurality of software objects, the first plurality of so... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5325092 | Huffman decoder architecture for high speed operation and reduced memory Various Huffman decoder architectures are presented. By these decoder architectures, more than one codeword in a stream of Huffman-coded data units may be decoded into more than one token in a single decoding operation on average. An efficient memory orga... | 06/28/1994 |
