The story was suggested to her by the 1883 controversy over the success of US actress Mary Anderson
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1905: Mary Anderson of the USA was granted a patent...
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1905
Mary Anderson
of the USA was granted a patent on her device for a lever-operated swinging arm with a rubber blade, the first windscreen-wiper for cars.
“Inventor of the Week Archive”. Lemenson-MIT Program.