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  1. Mary Anderson: The Unheralded Inventor of the Windshield Wiper. On a snowy day in 1902, National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) Inductee Mary Anderson was riding in a streetcar in New York City and observed how frustrated the vehicle’s driver was becoming as he struggled to remove the snow from the windshield.

  2. Mary Bebe Anderson (April 3, 1918 – April 6, 2014) was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions between 1939 and 1965. She was best known for her small supporting role in the film Gone With the Wind as well as one of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock 's 1944 film Lifeboat. [2]

  3. Jul 25, 2017 · Alabama native Mary Anderson (1866-1953) is credited with inventing the first operational windshield wiper. Encylopedia of Alabama. "They missed out," says Wingo. "Don't you think?" Wingo...

  4. Windshield Wiper. U.S. Patent No. 743,801. Inducted in 2011. Born Feb. 19, 1866 - Died June 27, 1953. While touring the city of New York in a trolley car on a snowy day in the early 1900s, Mary Anderson conceived her idea of a windshield wiper blade that could be operated from the inside by the trolley driver.

  5. Nov 13, 2009 · 1903. Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper. The patent office awards U.S. Patent No. 743,801 to a Birmingham, Alabama woman named Mary Anderson for her “window cleaning device for...

  6. Mary Anderson was born on 3 April 1918 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for Lifeboat (1944), Wilson (1944) and Gone with the Wind (1939). She was married to Leon Shamroy and Leonard Marion Behrens. She died on 6 April 2014 in Burbank, California, USA.

  7. Mary Anderson (born July 28, 1859, Sacramento, Calif., U.S.—died May 29, 1940, Broadway, Worcestershire, Eng.) was an American actress whose popularity rested in great part on her exceptional beauty and highly successful publicity. Anderson early decided upon a career on the stage, and at age 16 she made her debut as Juliet in Louisville ...

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