American real estate developer and rancher Mary Anderson is credited with inventing which operational part of a car in 1903?
Mary Anderson (inventor) Mary Anderson (inventor) 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 from inside the car, called the windshield wiper. 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
Geoffrey Palmer (real estate developer) Geoffrey Palmer (real estate developer) Geoffrey H. Palmer is an American real estate developer and Republican donor. Palmer is the son of architect and developer Daniel Saxon Palmer, who was born as Dan Weissinger in Budapest, Hungary in 1920. The younger Palmer grew up in Malibu, California. Palmer attended Santa Monica College before transferring to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he earned a degree in finance. Palmer then earned a law degree from Pepperdine School of Law, receiving his juris doctorate. After clerking for a California superior court judge, Palmer decided to pursue real estate development of multifamily