[Exodus (OP)]

Ok, heres one for you... who invented the windscreen wiper?

Essentia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem...

[Exodus (OP)]

The inventor was Mary Anderson

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[shortandstrange]

Wrong! it was Gladstone Adams who was born in my town!

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[neilep]

Blimey !!...over two years sonce the first post....but shortandstrange what about this http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blanderson.htm


Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[DoctorBeaver]

Anderson in 1905 & Adams in 1911, eh?
Maybe the 2 were different in which case both could actually have invented 1. However, as Anderson's was in 1905, I think it is she who should get the accolade.