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 |
| 5438671 | Method and system for transferring compressed bytes of information between separate hard disk drive units A two-computer system and method wherein data is transferred between the computers as complete disk images rather than as files. The transfer is made between the parallel ports of the two computers, for greater speed; amd RLL data compression is used to i... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5355251 | Liquid crystal display device with octagonal cell providing increased wiring density A liquid crystal display (LCD) of high visual quality and having a high density wiring arrangement is provided. The LCD can accommodate up to four addressing and/or control conductors placed across the display and between columns and rows of display elect... | 10/11/1994 |
