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 ...

"Flash of Genius" director Marc Abraham admits that he suffered a few snickers when he initially pitched the life story of Detroit inventor Robert Kearns to Hollywood. "There was a bit of 'It's a ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — 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 ...

"Ten thousand engineers in Detroit -- you'd think they'd know how to design an automobile," sneers aspiring inventor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) in FLASH OF GENIUS. His big complaint: The windshield ...