Windshield wipers are such a simple little thing on the front of your windshield, that it can be easy to underestimate their importance—that is until you get stuck in a rainstorm. In bad weather ...

Robert Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers who won multimillion-dollar judgments against Ford and Chrysler for using his idea, has died, aged 77, at his home in suburban Baltimore, ...

Here are some of the alternate windshield cleaning methods people employed pre-wipers: Removing the windshield entirely, stopping the vehicle and wiping off the glass before continuing for another 40 ...

Robert Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, who won multimillion-dollar judgments against Ford and Chrysler for using his idea, has died. He was 77. Kearns died of cancer Feb. 9 at ...

For two decades, Robert Kearns waged an obsessive crusade against the auto industry, which he accused of stealing his invention. It destroyed his marriage, brought on a mental breakdown and may have ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection documents the inventive career of physicist and engineer Robert W. Kearns. Kearns invented and patented in 1967 the windshield ...

DETROIT (AP) -- Robert Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, who won multimillion-dollar judgments against Ford and Chrysler for using his idea, has died. He was 77. Kearns died of ...

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Who among us hasn’t dreamed of having some brainstorm idea, prototyping it, and then have some huge company put it into worldwide production? The problem is, that’s not really as easy as it sounds in ...

Occasionally you hear a story in the news about an inventor having his idea stolen by a big company; this is one of those stories. It's about an individual inventor and the battles he fought with the ...