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Mary Anderson was born in Greene County, Alabama
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Mary Anderson and her family moved to Birmingham, Alabama
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Mary Anderson and her family moved to Fresno, California
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Mary operated a cattle ranch and vineyard from 1893 to 1898
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They are used to wide off rain or snow off the windshield, worked using a hand held lever
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They were invented along side the wipers. They are a smooth surface on the wiper so that the windshield wiper does not scratch the windshield. It wipes the precipitation off.
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Windshield wipers had a patent from 1903-1920
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He died from 1 gunshot in the back and 3 in the rear-end
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Manufacturers began using the windshield wipers and Mary Anderson stopped being paid for them.
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Windshield wipers were upgraded to work automatically
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Mary Anderson died at the age of 87
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Almost all vehicles are manufactured with automatic windshield wipers. FUN FACT: Even space shuttles have windshield wipers