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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 36,869 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Mary Anderson is the 128th most popular inventor (up from 149th in 2019), the 1,635th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,052nd in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 37k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mary Andersons by language

Over the past year Mary Anderson has had the most page views in the with 15,461 views, followed by Spanish (11,625), and Russian (4,059). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (122.12%), Hebrew (66.03%), and Ukrainian (62.65%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Mary Anderson ranks 128 out of 426. Before her are Johann Jacob Schweppe, Henri Giffard, Taiichi Ohno, Nikolai Kardashev, Hugo Schmeisser, and Samuel Crompton. After her are Robert Adler, Elisha Gray, Richard Jordan Gatling, Gunther von Hagens, W. O. Bentley, and Robert Moog.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Mary Anderson ranks 37. Before her are Prince Henry of Prussia, Mary Kingsley, Henry McMahon, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Silvio Gesell, and Maurice Barrès. After her are Vito Cascio Ferro, August Oetker, Georges Feydeau, Ugyen Wangchuck, Aurel Stein, and Leonid Pasternak. Among people deceased in 1953, Mary Anderson ranks 39. Before her are Tazio Nuvolari, Moïse Kisling, Nobuyuki Abe, Vera Mukhina, Ludwig Prandtl, and Hugo Schmeisser. After her are Jean Epstein, Johan Laidoner, Alice Prin, Elsa Beskow, Hank Williams, and Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Anderson ranks 1,635 out of 20,380. Before her are Raymond A. Spruance (1886), Harvey Milk (1930), Luke Perry (1966), Maria Shriver (1955), Edward W. Morley (1838), and Ethel Barrymore (1879). After her are Caroline Kennedy (1957), Jackie Coogan (1914), Kyle MacLachlan (1959), Eddie Cochran (1938), Cleveland Abbe (1838), and Samuel C. C. Ting (1936).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Mary Anderson ranks 31. Before her are Robert Noyce (1927), Jacque Fresco (1916), Lee de Forest (1873), Josiah Warren (1798), Hiram Maxim (1840), and Percy Spencer (1894). After her are Elisha Gray (1835), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), Robert Moog (1934), Sequoyah (1770), Elias Howe (1819), and Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890).

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