<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Inventor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Known for </Th> <Td> (1903) the windshield wiper </Td> </Tr> <P> Mary Anderson (February 19, 1866--June 27, 1953) was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade . In November 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled inside the car, called the windshield wiper . </P> <P> Mary Anderson was born in Greene County, Alabama, at the start of Reconstruction in 1866 . In 1889 she moved with her widowed mother and sister to the booming town of Birmingham, Alabama . She built the Fairmont Apartments on Highland Avenue soon after settling in . By 1893, Mary Anderson had moved west to Fresno, California where until 1898 she operated a cattle ranch and vineyard . </P>

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