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Mary Anderson

1862 - 1953

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Mary Elizabeth Anderson (February 19, 1866 – June 27, 1953) was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist, and most notably the inventor of what became known as the windshield wiper. On November 10, 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from inside the car, called the windshield wiper. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Anderson has received more than 37,152 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Mary Anderson is the 149th most popular inventor (down from 129th in 2019), the 2,053rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,654th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 57.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Mary Anderson ranks 149 out of 354. Before her are Alfred Vail, Viktor Schauberger, Nikolai Kardashev, Reginald Fessenden, Jethro Tull, and Robert Ludvigovich Bartini. After her are Fausto Veranzio, Hiram Maxim, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Charles Algernon Parsons, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, and Sequoyah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Mary Anderson ranks 42. Before her are Maurice Barrès, Georges Feydeau, Ugyen Wangchuck, Leonid Pasternak, Théo van Rysselberghe, and Vito Cascio Ferro. After her are Eugen Ehrlich, August Oetker, Mikhail Nesterov, Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, Frederick Delius, and Nicholas Murray Butler. Among people deceased in 1953, Mary Anderson ranks 47. Before her are Nobuyuki Abe, Wilhelm Stuckart, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Noe Zhordania, Johan Laidoner, and Otto Meissner. After her are Elsa Beskow, Bill Tilden, Jacques Thibaud, Herman J. Mankiewicz, René Fonck, and Sergei Winogradsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Anderson ranks 2,053 out of 18,182. Before her are Bob Fosse (1927), Paul Ryan (1970), Gigi Hadid (1995), Jean Arthur (1900), John Frankenheimer (1930), and David Berkowitz (1953). After her are Jack Kemp (1935), Fred Rogers (1928), Othniel Charles Marsh (1831), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Walter Lantz (1899), and Gabe Newell (1962).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Mary Anderson ranks 34. Before her are Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), Lee de Forest (1873), Elisha Gray (1835), Robert Moog (1934), Josiah Warren (1798), and Alfred Vail (1807). After her are Hiram Maxim (1840), Sequoyah (1770), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Charles Martin Hall (1863), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), and Melvil Dewey (1851).

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