PITTSBURGH, June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "My son's girlfriend experienced a situation where the motor went out on her windshield wipers. I thought there should be a temporary solution to protect ...

American real estate developer, rancher and inventor of the first practical windshield wiper Mary Anderson poses for a portrait circa 1900. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)(Getty ...

Anderson was born to means on a southern plantation but raised in a society devastated by war. It was also a society that suffered a tragic loss of human capital. Male capital. More than 1 in 5 ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a simple way to warm and defrost windshield wipers during winter weather," said an inventor, from Brookfield, Wisc., "so I invented the ...