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  2. Mary Anderson (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    She then applied for, and in 1903 was granted, a 17-year patent for a windshield wiper. The patent application was filed on June 18, 1903. On November 10, 1903, the United States Patent Office awarded Anderson patent number 743,801 for her Window Cleaning device. [6] [1] In 1903 when Anderson applied for the patent, cars were not very popular.

  3. Windscreen wiper - Wikipedia

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    Anderson's 1903 window cleaner design. American inventor Mary Anderson is popularly credited with devising the first operational windscreen wiper in 1903. [3] [4] In Anderson's patent, she called her invention a "window cleaning device" for electric cars and other vehicles. Operated via a lever from inside a vehicle, her version of windscreen ...

  4. Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) - Wikipedia

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    The windshield wiper is a bladed device used to wipe rain and dirt from a windshield. In 1903, Mary Anderson is credited with inventing the first operational windshield wiper. [104] [105] In Anderson's patent, she called her invention a window cleaning device for electric cars and other vehicles. Operated via a lever from inside a vehicle, her ...

  5. 1903 in science - Wikipedia

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    The year 1903 in science and ... Windscreen wiper for automobiles is first patented by Mary Anderson in the ... American biologist, co-inventor of the combined ...

  6. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    Mary Anderson is credited for inventing the first functional windscreen wiper in 1903. Two other inventors, Robert Douglass and John Apjohn, also patented windscreen cleaning devices in the same year. Car heater

  7. 1900s - Wikipedia

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    1903 – Mary Anderson invented windshield wipers. In November 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent [59] for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled inside the car, called the windshield wiper. [60] Her device consisted of a lever and a swinging arm with a rubber blade.

  8. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Lloyd Trammell (born 1953), U.S. – inventor in the field of dimensional sound processing; Richard Trevithick (1771–1833), UK – high-pressure steam engine, first full-scale steam locomotive; Franc Trkman (1903–1978), Slovenia – electrical switches, accessories for opening windows

  9. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    1903 Mass spectrometry [95] 1991 William Edward Hanford: 1908 Polyurethane [96] 1992 Benjamin Rubin: 1917 Vaccine needle [97] 1992 Charles F. Brannock: 1903 Brannock device for foot measuring [98] 1992 Frederick Gardner Cottrell: 1877 Electrostatic precipitator [99] 1992 Lloyd Conover: 1923 Tetracycline [100] 1992 William Redington Hewlett ...