THE WIPER INVENTOR
This invention is one many will assume was made with the invention of automobiles... but NO!... this invention was actually made as an addition and quite interestingly, by a woman. Yes a woman! Her name is Mary Anderson and her invention, as simple as it looked, was one of the top rated in history.
Imagine cars without wipers!... How many accidents are there going to be during snow and rain? would it even be possible to drive?
At the dawn of the 20th century, Mary Anderson went to New York City for the first time. She saw a much different New York City than the one tourists see today. There were no cabs
honking, nor were there thousands of cars vying for position in
afternoon traffic. Cars had not yet captured the American imagination
and were quite rare when Anderson took that trip, but the woman from
Alabama would end up inventing something that has become standard on
every automobile. During her trip, Anderson took a tram through the
snow-covered city.
She noticed that the driver had to stop the tram every few minutes to wipe the snow off his front window. At the time, all drivers had to do so; rain and snow were thought to be things drivers had to deal with, even though they resulted in poor visibility. When she returned home, Anderson developed a squeegee on a spindle that was attached to a handle on the inside of the vehicle. When the driver needed to clear the glass, he simply pulled on the handle and the squeegee wiped the precipitation from the windshield. Anderson received the patent for her device in 1903; just 10 years later, thousands of Americans owned a car with her invention.
Mature Minds Talk.
She noticed that the driver had to stop the tram every few minutes to wipe the snow off his front window. At the time, all drivers had to do so; rain and snow were thought to be things drivers had to deal with, even though they resulted in poor visibility. When she returned home, Anderson developed a squeegee on a spindle that was attached to a handle on the inside of the vehicle. When the driver needed to clear the glass, he simply pulled on the handle and the squeegee wiped the precipitation from the windshield. Anderson received the patent for her device in 1903; just 10 years later, thousands of Americans owned a car with her invention.
Mature Minds Talk.
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