The Inventor Of The Replacement Wiper Blade Remembered As Of Now.

All the way back as far as nineteen hundred and three the concept of the wiper blades would have been mostly strange to most, but not so to an adventurous young engineer by the name of Ms Mary Anderson. This blustering young woman took it upon herself to adjust the world and minds of men by being the pioneer of an apparatus which would one day come to pervade the entire world of motor cars. Back then before she came onto the scene the thought that rain could be removed from a viewing window had not even occurred to any one despite the large count of accidents caused by this deficit of visibility. It was basically something which nearly all drivers had unconsciously accepted as normal and to take the inherent risks with a pinch of salt. Before wiper blades the standard way of cleaning a wind screen was to put your hand out of the window and wipe it from there or stop, get out and then continue to clear the wind screen. Neither of these techniques was very good in fact before the wiper blades was designed the number of crashes on the roads and byways were substantial. The idea to create such a great and noble appliance came to the erstwhile Ms Mary Anderson one day upon a aquaintance to the sprawling city of New York and upon viewing the tram drivers placing their hands out of the windows in order to wipe the wind screen. On the way back home to her native Alabama it became obvious to her that this method simply wouldn’t do and that a appliance or wiper blades using twin brushes could be used to clear the wind screen by way of a hand crank mechanism.

The next year in nineteen hundred and four Ms Anderson had already had the design of the new wipers apparatus patented and this time it was assembled of rubber. The wipers was fixed to a spring loaded arm which dragged the wipers over the wind screen when actuated by a handle located inside the cab.

Although many before her had tried to solve this perplexing problem hers was the first idea which was actually reasonable and more absolutely actually worked well. This was all at a time when trams were still quite rare on the open roads and people ignorance of road safety was at an all time high. In fact, poor Ms Anderson was quite severely criticised for her revolutionary new device claiming such things as the wiper blade appliance would absorb the driver and cause more accidents than it avoids. Such remarks were ill founded however and over time Ms Anderson’s apparatus would go on to dominate the world. With the help of a man named Henry Ford the car or horseless carriage would soon be produced in large numbers and by nineteen hundred and fifteen the wiper blade would be fixed as standard to all new models of car. These days it is quite difficult to conceive a world without replacement wiper blades in fact I suspect without them it would totally suck so lets all give a big hand to Ms Anderson for her great work.