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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 |
| 6002872 | Method and apparatus for structured profiling of data processing systems and applications A method for monitoring performance of a program. A periodically occurring event is detected and a stack associated with the program is identified in response to a detection of the periodically occurring event, which may be a timer interrupt. The stack is... | 12/14/1999 |
