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Mary Elizabeth Anderson (February 19, 1866 – June 27, 1953) [1] was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist, and most notably the inventor of what became known as the windshield wiper.
Mary Anderson (February 19, 1866–June 27, 1953) was hardly a likely candidate to invent the windshield wiper—especially considering she filed her patent before Henry Ford even started manufacturing cars.
A young woman named Mary Anderson changed all of that with her invention of the windshield wiper, an idea that leapt into her mind as she traveled from Alabama to New York City. Little is known about Mary Anderson, except for the incident that inspired her infamous creation.
Born Feb. 19, 1866 - Died June 27, 1953. While touring New York City in a trolley car on a snowy day in the early 1900s, Mary Anderson conceived her idea of a windshield wiper blade that could be operated from the inside by the trolley driver.
The patent office awards U.S. Patent No. 743,801 to a Birmingham, Alabama woman named Mary Anderson for her “window cleaning device for electric cars and other vehicles to remove snow, ice or...
Mary Anderson's Keys Inventor and patent holder for the windshield wiper. Overcame: Obstacles facing female inventors and entrepreneurs in the male-dominated world during her lifetime.
Entrepreneur Mary Anderson thought it made no sense that New York streetcar drivers had to keep jumping off to clean snow from the windshield. She soon won a patent for her "window cleaning...
Alabama native Mary Anderson (1866-1953) is credited with inventing the first operational windshield wiper. In her 1903 patent, she called her invention a window cleaning device for electric cars and other vehicles.
In the winter of 1902, Mary Anderson was on a trolley during a visit to New York City. She saw the trolley driver struggle to keep sleet off the windshield. He cleaned it by hand. This inspired her to create a device to clean the windshield. It would later be known as a windshield wiper.
Mary Anderson was an American inventor of the 20th century, known primarily for her invention of the windscreen wiper.