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Oct 3, 2008 · Flash of Genius: Directed by Marc Abraham. With Greg Kinnear, Tim Eddis, Warren Belle, Karl Pruner. Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
- (18K)
- Biography, Drama
- Marc Abraham
- 2008-10-03
A decade later, he is happily married to Phyllis and the father of six children. As he drives his Ford Galaxie through a light rain, the constant movement of the windshield wipers irritates his troubled vision. The incident inspires him to create a wiper blade mechanism modeled on the human eye, which blinks every few seconds rather than ...
Bob Kearns, father of Dennis Kearns and five other children, was a brilliant Detroit physics professor who single-handedly invented and patented the intermittent windshield wiper. The amazing true story of his decades-long litigation with Ford Motor Company over the rights to this world-changing device became the subject of a New York Times ...
Out for a drive during a rainstorm, Bob, who suffered an eye injury during his honeymoon years earlier, wonders why his car's windshield wipers couldn't function more like the human eyelid in clearing away excess liquid whenever required so as to be able to see clearly at all times.
When college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) develops an intermittent windshield wiper, he believes he, his wife (Lauren Graham) and their children will be set...
- (107)
- Marc Abraham
- PG-13
- Greg Kinnear
Oct 2, 2008 · It's a modestly stylish movie, but critic Mark Jenkins says the answer may depend on your interest in, well ... patenting the intermittent windshield wiper.
People also ask
Who invented intermittent windshield wipers?
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Oct 3, 2008 · When Ford and Chrysler started manufacturing cars with wipers without crediting Kearns, he took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. A new film called Flash of Genius tells his story.
