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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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| 20080069701 | ION PUMP HAVING EMISSION CONTAINMENT An ion pump having emissions containment. The ion pump includes an anode constructed from a plurality of tubes and a cathode constructed from plates positioned on opposite sides of the anode and positioned apart from the anode. The anode and cathode are positioned withi... | 03/20/2008 |
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| 20060091731 | Turbo-machine and method for operating the same The invention relates to a turbo-machine comprising a rotor, a stator, and a flow channel for an actuating fluid used to drive the rotor. Said turbo-machine comprises a magnet for producing a pre-determinable magnetic field in the flow channel. The invention also relate... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060045754 | Ion pump for cryogenic magnet apparatus Ion pumping modules without ion pump magnets are disposed within evacuated spaces located within the fringing fields of cryostatic housed high field magnets. Improved vacuum conditions are obtainable both within superconducting magnet cryostats and for evacuated auxilia... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20050169766 | Getter compositions reactivatable at low temperature after exposure to reactive gases at higher temperature Compositions containing non-evaporable getter alloys are provided which, after having lost their functionality in consequence of exposure to reactive gases at a first temperature, can then be reactivated by a thermal treatment at a second temperature that is lower than ... | 08/04/2005 |
