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Mary Anderson was an inventor, real estate developer, rancher, and viticulturist from Alabama. She devised the first operational windscreen wiper in If you have ever been on a road trip and hard rain falls down from the sky, or if you have ever driven around an area filled with fog, you might have used your car’s windshield wiper in order to gain sight of the road.
See the fact file below for more information on the Mary Anderson or alternatively, you can download our page Mary Anderson worksheet pack to utilise within the classroom or home enviro • We take windshield wipers for granted as a truly excellent invention. It is a standard piece of equipment on almost all cars, except for open-wheel race cars. It is so ingenious and universal that someone must be the heir to a massive windshield wiper patent fortune. Alas, profits from Mary Anderson’s invention ended up never being hers. Anderson was a few things, but was primarily a real estate developer and entrepreneur, building the Fairmont Apartments in Birmingham, Alabama in the s. She then left Birmingham to run a cattle farm and vineyard in Fresno, California, then returned back to Alabama shortly after to care for an ailing aunt. As her biography goes, the aunt possessed a trunk with a huge collection of valuable gold and jewelry. From there, Anderson lived comfortably. When she funnen herself in a New York City trolley car during the winter of , Anderson observed the trolley car driver struggling • MaryAnderson Daughter of James Alexander Anderson and Rebecca Payne (McLemore) Anderson Sister of Frances Burt (Anderson) Thornton Problems/Questions Profile last modified | Created 5 Jan This page has been accessed times. Mary Was an Inventor. Mary Anderson is Notable. Mary Anderson was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. In November Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from inside the car, called the windshield wiper. Mary Anderson was born on February 19, , to John C. and Rebecca Anderson on Burton Hill Plantation in Greene County, Alabama. She was one of at least two daughters; the other was Fannie, who remained close to Mary all her life. Their father died in , and the you
Windshield Wiper Inventor Mary Anderson Never Profited From Her Invention
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