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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 |
| 4862810 | Railroad car for container transport A railroad car for transporting horizontal shipping containers includes (1) a vertical transition box from the car center sill to the end wall of a well portion capable of receiving one or more shipping containers, (2) car body bottom side sills in the fo... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4807722 | Railroad car for container transport A railroad car for transporting horizontal shipping containers includes (1) a vertical transistion box from the car center sill to the end wall of a well portion capable of receiving one or more shipping containers, (2) car body bottom side sills in the f... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4782762 | Well car end girder arrangement A railway car train comprises five car units. Each car unit has two end structures with a depressed well portion supported therebetween. A pair of side structures extend between the end structures and adjacent the well portion. A floor structure extends b... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4312711 | Fluid cooled quenching cars A quenching car comprises an open-topped body arranged to carry a load to be quenched. At least a part of the body is composed of walls of hollow construction to receive a liquid cooling medium, such as water. The hollow walls comprise inner and outer pla... | 01/26/1982 |
