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In 1903, J.H.Apjohn invented the prototype of the windshield wiper that can move two brushes up and down on the surface of the upright windshield
As early as 1902, Mary Anderson saw that a car driver had to open a window that was not equipped with a wiper in order to see the road ahead when driving in the rain, so she came up with the idea of inventing the wiper. Just one year later, in 1903, she obtained a patent for the invention of a manual wiper, which was the only invention in Mary Anderson's entire life, but the wiper at that time needed to be manually wiped. Said that the driver needs to turn the wiper by hand to wipe the glass while driving, although this invention is very practical, but for a long time no one cares.
Around 1910, the electric wiper appeared, and the inventor was also a woman named Charlotte Bridgeford. At that time Charlotte Bridgeford and her daughter Florent founded a company called "Bridgeford", one of which was to manufacture electric wipers, and won the project in 1917. Patent, but the company did not make much profit from it, because no one recognized the effect of their invention at that time, this situation continued until 1923, and it was not applied and popularized after that. Since 1927, the electric wiper has been taken over by Bosch and has been carried forward to this day.
The Mercedes-Benz Type_S model, which was put on the market in 1927, has been equipped with relatively simple wipers
In addition, in 1962 a man named Bob Kearns invented intermittent wipers with variable wiper speed, and by the 1990s, modern wipers equipped with tiny sensors can detect whether the windshield is falling or not. There is rain, thus activating the wipers to work, of course, the wiping speed can also be adjusted according to the rainfall. At present, in addition to the traditional intermittent wipers equipped on most models, many high-end cars are equipped with this automatic sensor wiper, which can automatically control the wiper to work through the rain sensor installed on the vehicle. , and the wiping frequency will be adjusted in time with the rainfall.
