Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1902 by recognizing that streetcar drivers opened windows to clean snow off windshields, letting in cold air that made passengers miserable, and she solved this by designing a mechanism to clean the windshield from inside the vehicle.

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See this, this person, this is Mary Anderson. In 1902 in New York City, she was visiting... she picked up her sketchbook right then and there, and began drawing what would become the world's first windshield wiper.

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The first secret of great design | Tony FadellTED
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