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2. Mary Anderson (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   Invention of the windshield wiper. 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. On November 10, 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device ...

3. Robert Kearns - Wikipedia

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   Robert William Kearns (March 10, 1927 – February 9, 2005) was an American mechanical engineer, educator and inventor who invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. His first patent for the invention was filed on December 1, 1964, after a few previous designs by other ...

4. Flash of Genius (film) - Wikipedia

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   Flash of Genius is a 2008 American biographical drama film directed by Marc Abraham. Philip Railsback wrote the screenplay based on a 1993 New Yorker article by John Seabrook. [ 2] The story focuses on Robert Kearns (played by Greg Kinnear) and his legal battle against the Ford Motor Company after they developed an intermittent windshield wiper ...

5. Windscreen wiper - Wikipedia

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   Windscreen wiper on a parked car. In this common design, the force from the arm is distributed evenly with a series of linkages known as a whippletree. A windscreen wiper ( Commonwealth English) or windshield wiper ( American English) is a device used to remove rain, snow, ice, washer fluid, water, or other debris from a vehicle's front window.

6. Trico - Wikipedia

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   First Brands Group. Trico is an American company that specializes in windshield wipers. Trico, then known as Tri-Continental Corporation, invented the windshield wiper blade in 1917. [ 2] Its original Trico Plant No. 1 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [ 3] Trico is today one of the leading manufacturers of windshield ...

7. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company - Wikipedia

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   firestone .com. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey S. Firestone (1868–1938) in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire tires [ 2] for fire apparatus, [ 3] and later, pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled transportation common in the era.