{"id":17593,"date":"2026-11-10T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=17593"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:09:47","slug":"windshield-wipers-were-patented-by-mary-anderson-in-1903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=17593","title":{"rendered":"Windshield Wipers Were Patented by Mary Anderson in 1903"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25906\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25906\" class=\"wp-image-25906 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Windshield-Wipers-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windshield Wiper Patent<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Windshield wipers were patented by Mary Anderson of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1903.<\/strong> Her &#8220;window cleaner devices for electric cars and other vehicles&#8221; received patent number 743801. She invented the windshield wipers after she was a passenger on a trolley where the conductor could not easily clean the windshield of ice and snow. Children could view her patent at: <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US743801A\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windshield Wiper Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windshield wipers were patented by Mary Anderson of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1903. Her &#8220;window cleaner devices for electric cars and other vehicles&#8221; received patent number 743801. She invented the windshield wipers after she was a passenger on a trolley where the conductor could not easily clean the windshield of ice and snow. Children could view <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=17593' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4775,4554,4774,4776,6008,4773],"class_list":["post-17593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-window-cleaner-devices-for-electric-cars-and-other-vehicles","tag-4554","tag-mary-anderson","tag-november-10","tag-patent-number-7443801","tag-windshield-wipers","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17593"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29861,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions\/29861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}