Monday, February 28, 2005

Intermittent Windshield Wiper Inventor Dies

This article from the Washington Post discusses the life and court battles of Robert Kearns, inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper:

From a basement in Detroit, where he devised his invention, to Gaithersburg, where he moved in the 1970s, Kearns carried his lonely fight all the way to the Supreme Court, one man against the might of the industrial world and a patent system he believed had let him down.

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