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Windshield Wiper

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A windshield wiper, called a windscreen wiper in Commonwealth English, is a device that clears rain, snow, ice, or other debris from a vehicle's front window, made of a pivoting metal arm carrying a rubber blade that is swept back and forth across the glass by a motor, usually electric. Mary Anderson is credited with inventing the first operational windshield wiper in 1903, filing a patent for what she called a window cleaning device on June 18 of that year, granted on November 10, 1903, and operable by a lever from inside the vehicle. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Almost all motor vehicles, including cars, trucks, buses, train locomotives, and watercraft with a cabin-and some aircraft-are equipped with one or more such wipers, which are usually a legal requirement.
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