Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper—and companies said no. 🚗 . . . After watching drivers stop to clear snow in New York, Anderson received US Patent 743,801 in 1903. A Canadian firm rejected the device in 1905, and her 17-year patent expired in 1920. Carmakers embraced wipers only after she could no longer profit from the idea.
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