Alabama Woman Stuck In NYC Traffic In 1902 Invented The Windshield Wiper
Entrepreneur Mary Anderson thought it made no sense that New York streetcar drivers had to keep jumping off to clean snow from the windshield. She soon won a patent for her "window cleaning device."
Even the most commonplace devices in our world had to be invented by someone.
Take the windshield wiper. It may seem hard to imagine a world without windshield wipers, but there was one, and Mary Anderson lived in that world.
In 1902, Anderson was visiting New York City.
