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Oh good. I changed the wiper blades on both my trucks this past week. LolThis intrigued me so I looked up female inventors. Many of them did work along side males in their inventions and some didn’t even get credit for their work but that’s a sign of the times, not a reflection of their work.
But I found one Ranger lol! I have some downtime today clearly lol. Windsheild wiper blades were invented by Mary Anderson, who got a patent for them but wasn’t successful in getting anyone to buy it, probably because she didn’t have any men to help get her in the right circles (it was the early 1900s and let’s face it, she would of needed male buy in I won’t deny that).
When the patrnt expired and cars became the main mode of transportation, windshield wipers where invented using her basic design.
So though she didn’t get any credit for it, sadly, until much later, she did in fact invent something that is used world wide still to this day.
That’s kind of cool to me. And while I do acknowledge that there are far more men who created and invented things, men, rather than women of those times, where taken more seriously and had far more finanical opportunities and doors open to them to successfully create, and less women of those times were even interested in doing those things anyway.