Alabama Newscenter — Alabama Woman Designed the First Operational Windshield Wiper

Alabama News Center | March 11, 2021 @ 10:00 am

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By Michael Sznajderman

The next time you’re straining to steer safely through a sudden thunderstorm, give thanks to the Alabama woman whose clever idea made the path forward a little easier.

Mary Anderson (1866-1953) is credited with designing the first operational windshield wiper, and she had the patent to prove it.

Anderson was born just after the Civil War on a family plantation in Greene County. After her father’s death, the family moved to Birmingham in 1889, according to an account of her life in the Encyclopedia of Alabama.

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