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  • Mary Anderson invented the first set of manually operated windshield wipers in 1905. Another woman, Charlotte Bridgwood, president of Bridgwood Manufacturing Company of New York, invented the first mechanical windshield wiper system, the Storm Windshield Cleaner. It was patented in 1917. By 1923, automatic windshield wipers were standard on American cars.

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