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 |
| 4165876 | Container for a line for towing an aerial target and process for loading the line into the container A container for a line or cable for towing an aerial target, the container having a streamlined cylindrical body stowed under the towing airplane, with an open rear extremity into which the cable cartridge or loader is inserted. A pyrotechnical release de... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165057 | Method of improving the guiding of reaction driven flying bodies for ground-to-ground employment A method of improving the guiding of reaction driven flying bodies for ground-to-ground utilization and a device for practicing the method in which the distance between a target point and a launching point is determined, as by observation, and a flying bo... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4019422 | Vehicular mounted tow missile system A base of a TOW missile system is mounted on a rotatable turret of a vehicle and is also rotatably mounted relative to the rotation of the turret so that the orientation of the base about its own rotational axis remains stationary. The positioning of the ... | 04/26/1977 |
