...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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| 6850766 | Voice activated wireless locator service A voice activated wireless locator service provides an interactive voice response system whereby a user is walked through a sequence of voice prompts to select a desired destination. Using either geo-coded information provided during the voice call or speech recogni... | 02/01/2005 |