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Mary Anderson

1862 - 1953

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Mary Elizabeth Anderson (February 19, 1866 – June 27, 1953) was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist, and most notably the inventor of what became known as the windshield wiper. On November 10, 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from inside the car, called the windshield wiper. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Anderson is the 152nd most popular inventor (down from 128th in 2019), the 2,415th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,635th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Mary Anderson ranks 152 out of 426. Before her are Peter Cooper, Siegfried Marcus, Richard Jordan Gatling, Robert Cailliau, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, and Henri Giffard. After her are Peter Henlein, Robert Moog, Friedrich Zander, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Joseph Monier, and Paul Baran.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Mary Anderson ranks 44. Before her are Mary Kingsley, Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Anton Ažbe, Vito Cascio Ferro, Silvio Gesell, and Théo van Rysselberghe. After her are René Viviani, Leonid Pasternak, Mikhail Nesterov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Eugen Ehrlich, and Oswald Külpe. Among people deceased in 1953, Mary Anderson ranks 49. Before her are Bill Tilden, Jean Epstein, Hugo Schmeisser, John Christie, Noe Zhordania, and Moïse Kisling. After her are Nobutake Kondō, Hank Williams, Sergei Winogradsky, Stanisław Wojciechowski, Jacques Thibaud, and Jim Lightbody.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Anderson ranks 2,415 out of 20,380. Before her are Loretta Young (1913), Jim Parsons (1973), E. Howard Hunt (1918), Fredric March (1897), Harold Garfinkel (1917), and Vannevar Bush (1890). After her are Elijah Muhammad (1897), Pinetop Perkins (1913), Shannen Doherty (1971), Kalākaua (1836), Sol LeWitt (1928), and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Mary Anderson ranks 43. Before her are Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), Percy Spencer (1894), Elisha Gray (1835), Elias Howe (1819), Peter Cooper (1791), and Richard Jordan Gatling (1818). After her are Robert Moog (1934), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Alfred Vail (1807), and Robert Metcalfe (1946).

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