Even the most familiar things had once to be something invented. Here take, for example, the wipers, they are the same car wipers. It is difficult to imagine the modern world without such a simple but vital invention for any driver. But just a century ago no-never occurred to think of something like that. Anyone except Mary Anderson from Alabama.
So, back in 1902. Mary Anderson arrived in new York to see the Big Apple. She was riding on a tram, while outside it was snowing. Then the woman noticed that the tram driver has to constantly stop the train, get out and clean the windshield. Naturally, this caused delays and traffic jams. And then the head of Mary Anderson came the question: what if there was a device that would wipe his windshield, and the driver would not have to get out of the tram?
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The woman returned to Birmingham, where he made a sketch of his invention and its description. After that, she filed a patent application. In the patent application describes how the wipers was controlled by a knob installed in the car. In addition, the mechanism was easily removed to clean it at the time of bad weather. Application was filed 18 June 1903. 10, 1903 Patent office of the United States issued patent number 743 801 to the device for cleaning the Windows.
Mary Anderson started sending out letters to various car companies, however, car manufacturers at the dawn of the era of vehicles not too interested in her invention.
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But Mary Anderson was not one of those women who had given up after several failures. Despite the fact that she had no husband or son, which could help her survive in a world controlled by men, she lived long enough to see her windshield wipers become an obligatory element of any car (and not only).
Inventive Mary Anderson has not amassed wealth on the idea, but at least she finally got the recognition it deserves. In 2011, the woman’s name was inducted into the inventors Hall of fame.
