The real Sterling Elliott died in 1922 with 125 patents to his name. One of his most important inventions is one that allows the cars we drive today to be able to turn a corner by changing the angles of two wheels. Before that, tricycles were steered by turning only one wheel. People said that steering a four-wheel vehicle with a fixed axle couldn’t be done, because the two wheels have to be at different angles on the inside and outside of the curve. Sterling solved that problem very neatly.
He invented a lot of other things like a spring that would keep buggies level while people climbed inside, a pneumatic tire arrangement that revolutionized racing sulkies, and the world’s first metal-framed addressing plates that were critical to addressing machines that used stencils.
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The real Sterling Elliott died in 1922 with 125 patents to his name. One of his most important inventions is one that allows the cars we drive today to be able to turn a corner by changing the angles of two wheels. Before that, tricycles were steered by turning only one wheel. People said that steering a four-wheel vehicle with a fixed axle couldn’t be done, because the two wheels have to be at different angles on the inside and outside of the curve. Sterling solved that problem very neatly.
He invented a lot of other things like a spring that would keep buggies level while people climbed inside, a pneumatic tire arrangement that revolutionized racing sulkies, and the world’s first metal-framed addressing plates that were critical to addressing machines that used stencils.