Mary Anderson (inventor)
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Mary Anderson was the inventor of the windscreen wiper blade. Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device, as opposed to getting out and wiping it, in November of 1903.
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This article about an engineer, inventor or industrial designer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.She was born in Alabama, USA. 1872-1964. During a New York trip, she saw that the streetcar drivers had to open their windows to be able to see in the rain, so she decided to invent the windsheild wipers. She immediately began to create sketches. She got the windsheild wiper patented before Henry Ford patented the Model T.
