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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.
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 ...
November – Windscreen wiper for automobiles is first patented by Mary Anderson in the United States. December 15 – Italo Marchiony from New York City patents an improved design of apparatus for baking ice cream cones. [8]
Public Domain. In the 1930's, Nikola Tesla, who is known for creating the induction motor and refining AC currents, imagined a machine that would allow you to project a mental image in real life ...
The November 1903 Congressional Directory notes that Clark "was a major of a battalion that pursued Chief Joseph and his band in the Nez Perces invasion of 1877." [4] Between 1884 and 1888, Clark constructed a 34-room, Tiffany-decorated home on West Granite Street, incorporating the most modern inventions available, in Butte, Montana.
Mary Anderson (inventor) (1869–1953), inventor of the windshield wiper blade; Mary Annette Anderson (1871–1922), American professor, first black woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa; Mary P. Anderson (born 1948), American hydrologist and geologist; Mary Anderson (art historian) (1902–1973), British specialist in Christian iconography
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is selling the Bedford, N.Y., property where his estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, committed suicide in May. The 10-acre property and its gorgeous 10,000-square-foot ...
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