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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automatic mirror-wiper for vanity cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Tucson, Ariz., Marjorie Volke set out for a drive, noticed a traffic ticket under her automobile's windshield wiper. Without stopping her car she reached for the ticket, skidded into a hydrant, released a geyser. Autoist Volke's bill (for the hydrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

First part of an airplane to ice up in heavy weather is its windshield. It usually becomes opaque as a bathroom window long before wings and propeller begin to take on ice. Standard flying-field crack to pilots complaining about this phenomenon is "Get yourself a windshield wiper." Last week this ironic wheeze became reasonable advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wiper | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Announced by Air Associates, Inc., for pilots who want more than a peek at the ground out of an open side window before landing in rain or ice, was a windshield wiper which is designed to: 1) keep ice off the glass, and 2) scrub it dry in the heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wiper | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...hook-and-ladder is 55 feet long overall, cost $18,325, and features a windshield complete with wiper for the man who steers from the rear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Firemen Gather to Witness Wonder of $18,000 Apparatus | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

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