CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection documents the inventive career of physicist and engineer Robert W. Kearns. Kearns invented and patented in 1967 the windshield ...

Windshield wipers are such a simple little thing on the front of your windshield, that it can be easy to underestimate their importance—that is until you get stuck in a rainstorm. In bad weather ...

Robert Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers who won multimillion-dollar judgments against Ford and Chrysler for using his idea, has died, aged 77, at his home in suburban Baltimore, ...

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Who among us hasn’t dreamed of having some brainstorm idea, prototyping it, and then have some huge company put it into worldwide production? The problem is, that’s not really as easy as it sounds in ...

DETROIT (AP) -- Robert Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, who won multimillion-dollar judgments against Ford and Chrysler for using his idea, has died. He was 77. Kearns died of ...

Here are some of the alternate windshield cleaning methods people employed pre-wipers: Removing the windshield entirely, stopping the vehicle and wiping off the glass before continuing for another 40 ...

We’ve been to the moon. We’ve figured out a way to get from zero to 60 mph in under two seconds without making any noise. We’ve even managed to manufacture cheese—the preferred cheese to put on ...

Windshield wipers are something we never think about until they stop working in a rainstorm. Classic Mustang wiper motor operation is through a simple high-torque electric motor that runs a jackscrew ...

Some 2024 Chevy Blazer EV owners may experience an issue wherein their vehicle’s windshield wipers only operate at the highest speed setting, without functioning at slower or intermittent speeds. This ...