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 |
| 4236533 | Novel cigarette process and product produced therefrom A novel smoking composition is provided by treating tobacco with an active agent comprising a mixture of auric oxide, silver nitrate or sulfate, platinum tetrachloride and cerium (III) salts selected from the group of carbonates, sulfates and nitrates in ... | 12/02/1980 |
