who invented the first power steering in cars?
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Francis W. Davis invented power steering. In the 1920s, Davis was the chief engineer of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, and he saw first hand how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. Davis quit his job and rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, MA. He developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering. Power steering became commercially available by 1951
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Your best chance of finding information about Ford is with the search engines.Also see the wikipedia article on him. Here is a quote from wikipedia:\n\n"Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and the Henry Ford Company (which later became Cadillac). He was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles. This achievement not only revolutionized industrial production in the United States and the rest of the world, but also had such tremendous influence over modern culture that many social theorists identify this phase of economic and social history as "Fordism." Some credit him with contributing to the creation of a middle class in American society.\n"\n\nYou should also read "My life and work" by Henry Ford, at the gutenberg.org website and do not forget the Henry Ford Heritage Association at hfha.org\n\nI hope you find this information useful.
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#1) Garrett Morgan of the United States realized the need to control the flow of traffic.  A gifted inventor and reportedly the first African American to own an automobile in Cleveland, Ohio, he invented the electric automatic traffic light.\n\n#2) Dr. Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950) was an American medical doctor and surgeon who started the idea of a blood bank and a system for the long-term preservation of blood plasma (he found that plasma kept longer than whole blood). His ideas revolutionized the medical profession and have saved many, many lives.
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Indoor plumbing, the transistor (without which there would be no digital electronics), plastics.  I would agree with the "wheel" answer, except that it came around long before the engineering profession and was probably invented by some caveman.  You could also include scientific principles that have been discovered and subsequently led to great engineering feats.  For instance, Maxwell's Laws of Electromagnetism (the principle on which all wireless devices work), Bernoulli's Principle (the basis for airplane wing design) and so on.
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The first Cadillac was completed on Oct. 17, 1902 and was given its maiden test drive by Alanson P. Brush, the twenty-four-year-old Leland and Faulconer engineer who had contributed substantially to the car's design and who would later build the Brush Runabout.
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Rickenbacker invented the first electric guitar;\nFender built the first solid body electric guitar (1947);\nGibson was the first to combine classic guitar building techniques with electronics and also invented the humbucking pickup.
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:) henry ford invent it in the 1900s
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The first... would be the Ford Motor Company
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skoda, the day the built a convertable
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Robert Esnault-Pelterie would be most likely inventor if you wish to agree with the majority of researchers.\nFeel free to visit the source for information over the two mentioned inventors.
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Sputnik 1957\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite#The_first_artificial_satellite
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The first computer hard disk used. The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell. As a result of the joint research of Sherman and Smith, the Scotchgard™ Protector was launched in the marketplace. Secretary Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out" later renamed, Liquid Paper. The first commercial videotape recorder is introduced. The device is intended for industrial applications, and it quickly revolutionizes the way television programming is produced. Norman Bier invents plastic contact lenses
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I'm not sure what your after, but I did find a couple of interesting things I didn't know that happened in 1901:\n-First prototype Harley-Davidson was created.\n-The first Nobel Prize ceremony was held in Stockholm.
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On 10 December 1868, the first traffic lights were installed outside the British Houses of Parliament in London. They resembled railway signals of the time, with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for night use. The gas lantern was turned with a lever at its base so that the appropriate light faced traffic. Unfortunately, it exploded on 2 January 1869, injuring the policeman who was operating it.\n\nThe modern electric traffic light is an American invention. As early as 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah, policeman Lester Wire set up the first red-green electric traffic lights. On 5 August 1914, the American Traffic Signal Company installed a traffic signal system on the corner of 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Based on the design of James Hoge, it had two colors, red and green, and a buzzer to provide a warning for color changes. The first three-color traffic lights were introduced in New York and Detroit in 1920. In 1923, Garrett Morgan patented a traffic signal device, although it did not directly impact the evolution of the modern traffic light [3].\n\nThe first interconnected traffic signal system was installed in Salt Lake City in 1917, with six connected intersections controlled simultaneously from a manual switch. Automatic control of interconnected traffic lights was introduced March 1922 in Houston, Texas [4]. The first automatic experimental traffic lights in England were deployed in Wolverhampton in 1927. [5]\n\nAmpelmännchen pedestrian traffic signals have come to be seen as a nostalgic sign for the former German Democratic Republic.
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had a red button on my first car. It was a Golf and the red button wasn't wired to anything. It was a cool square big red button that I was told not to touch when I first got the car. No one knew what its purpose ever was, but when I drove I'd pretend I was hitting turbo whenever I hit the button!
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Charles Babbage is credited as the inventor of the first computer due to the invention of his difference engine machine in 1840.
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Very efficient cars as far as I know. German engineering is quite superb.\n\n(PS I do get your question - and I love 'em! :-) )