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 |
| 7660397 | Optimised control of traffic load on switches in a communication network The invention relates to a method and a system for optimised resource use of one or more selected switches in a communication network for alerting the population when an undesirable event occurs in a specific geographical area by means of messages transmitted via th... | 02/09/2010 |
