Categories: Curiosities

Incredible Things That Were Invented by Women

AN ALABAMA NATIVE, MARY ANDERSON CAME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR WINDSHIELD WIPERS WHEN SHE VISITED NEW YORK CITY ON A SNOWY DAY IN 1902.

According to Anderson’s great-great-niece, Reverend Sara-Scott Wingo, Anderson was riding a streetcar that day in New York City. After noticing that the snow caused traffic jams, since there was no efficient way to clean windshields at the time, she began brainstorming ideas for a wiper of some sort.

Anderson received a patent for her “window cleaning device” in 1903.

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