Topic summary
Windscreen wipers
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Windscreen wiper.
Early versions
Other early designs for the windscreen wiper are credited to Polish concert pianistJózef Hofmann, and to Mills Munitions, Birmingham, who also claimed to have been the first to patent windscreen wipers in England. At least three inventors patented windscreen cleaning devices at around the same time in 1903; Mary Anderson, Robert Douglass, and John Apjohn. In April 1911, a patent for windscreen wipers was registered by Sloan & Lloyd Barnes, patent agents of Liverpool, England, for Gladstone Adams of Whitley Bay.