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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.
Mary Bebe Anderson (April 3, 1918 – April 6, 2014) was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions between 1939 and 1965. She was best known for her small supporting role in the film Gone With the Wind as well as one of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock 's 1944 film Lifeboat .
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.
Inducted in 2011. 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.
Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper. 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...
It may seem hard to imagine a world without windshield wipers, but there was one, and Mary Anderson lived in that world. In 1902, Anderson was visiting New York City. "She was riding a streetcar...