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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| 20050134597 | Hardware display rotation A visual display is provided on a data processing apparatus by storing and retrieving display information. The display information is stored by receiving write access addresses (33), translating the write access addresses into write memory addresses (15) a... | 06/23/2005 |
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