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Robert William Kearns (March 10, 1927 – February 9, 2005) was an American mechanical engineer, educator and inventor who invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. His first patent for the invention was filed on December 1, 1964, after a few previous designs by other ...
Marc Abraham, who previously had produced The Road to Wellville (1994), Air Force One (1997), and Children of Men (2006), among many films, had long been drawn to the Robert Kearns saga for his directorial debut because the inventor believed more in fairness and honesty than the money offered to make him drop his lawsuit.
In 1963, another form of intermittent wiper was invented by Robert Kearns, an engineering professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. [3] (United States Patent 3,351,836 – 1964 filing date). Kearns's design was intended to mimic the function of the human eye, which blinks only once every few seconds. In 1963, Kearns built his ...
Robert Kearns (1927–2005) was an American engineer, educator and inventor. Robert Kearns may also refer to: Robbie Kearns (born 1971), Australian rugby player; Robert Kearns (musician), former member of The Bottle Rockets
Flash of Genius (2008) – biographical drama film focusing on Robert Kearns and his legal battle against the Ford Motor Company after they developed an intermittent windshield wiper based on ideas the inventor had patented [72]
Robert Kearns was the inventor of the intermittent windshield wipers. He acted as his own lawyer in parts of his long legal battles for patent infringement against Ford and Chrysler. [87] Edward C. Lawson, an African-American civil rights activist, was the pro se defendant in Kolender v.
Robert W. Kearns – inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles since 1969; won one of the best-known patent infringement cases against a major corporation; Donald Knuth – computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award (1974) [11]
Kearns is an anglicized Irish surname of Ó Céirín. Notable people with the surname include: ... Robert Kearns (1927–2005), inventor of the intermittent ...