As an inconspicuous automobile accessory, the wiper wiper has ensured the safe driving of the car in rainy and snowy weather and saved countless lives.

[Information-Niuche.com]

In summer, heavy rain and many winds and snowstorms in winter. As an inconspicuous automobile accessory, the wiper wiper has ensured the safe driving of the car in rainy and snowy weather and saved countless lives. However, it does not exist since the birth of a car, and it has also gone through a process from scratch. Today, the editor will talk to you about the history of wipers.

invention of wiper wiper

After the invention of automobiles, many accessories gradually emerged with the needs of use, and wiper is one of them. As early as the 19th century, when there were no wipers, driving was in trouble on rainy days. In order to cope with the embarrassment of the blurred windshield on rainy days, some people applied a mixed liquid of onions and carrots to the glass, but the method was troublesome, the smell was heavy, and the effect was not obvious, and it was miserable.

Therefore, in the era without wipers, people were exploring and moving forward in the rain and snow, and traffic accidents were frequent. It was not until 1902 that a wealthy lady named Mary Anderson, an American wiper, invented the first real wiper . Its invention can also be said to be the result of an accident.

One day in 1902, Mary Anderson suddenly encountered heavy rain on his way to attend a business event. The driver couldn't see the road ahead, and had to get out of the car in the rain and wipe the rain on the windshield with a rag. Mary was very anxious and scolded the driver for driving quickly. But just as the driver accelerated and turned a corner, a bicycle rider rushed out in a blur in front of him. When he saw it clearly, the driver hurriedly turned the steering wheel, but he couldn't dodge and hit a tree. Mary was injured on the spot and was sent to the hospital.

Remembering that his father died in a car accident due to a blurred windshield on rainy days. This time he was injured and hospitalized, and missed an important business opportunity. Mary really wanted to solve this hated problem. One time, she was moved to tears when the girl in the bedside received her boyfriend's flowers and kept wiping her tears with her handkerchief: If she could install a pole on the car glass to control the handkerchief, the driver would wipe the pole when she couldn't see the road clearly in the rainy day, wouldn't it be enough?

Mary was excited about this idea. After being discharged from the hospital, she immediately started the research and invented a wiper a year later and installed it in her car. This invention is very simple, which is to tie a sponge to a steel rod that punches through the glass of a car. When driving on rainy days, the driver can turn the lever to let the sponge close to the glass rub the rain. But this is very dangerous. On rainy days, the driver cannot see clearly ahead. If he still turns the lever with his hands, it is more likely to be dangerous.

So, Mary continued to think about improving this device and invented a rotating rod with a clockwork, so that the rain wiper can automatically wipe the rain many times after the last time. Later, she named this rain wiper device as a wiper and applied for an invention patent. The description of this device in patent specification is "window cleaning device". This earliest wiper device was used in many early models.

At the same time, Irish inventor James Henry Apjohn also invented a wiper device that can clean the front windshield up and down, and filed a patent in the UK. Since then, many inventors have successively applied for patents for wiper devices they manufactured. Around 1910, a woman named Charlotte Bridgford invented the electric wiper, announcing that the wiper entered the stage of technological exploration.

Development of wiper wiper

Although many car manufacturers were not buying wiper wiper at first, as the technology gradually matured, wiper wiper has gained the possibility of mass production and has become increasingly into people's car life. By 1911, wipers had become a necessity in automotive accessories.

In 1917, John R. Oishei founded Tri-Continental and invented the first two-stage wiper "Rain Rubber". Such a wiper design was basically adopted by Hyundai Motor. Tri-Continental also became a leading company in the wiper manufacturing industry at that time.

1919, William M. Folberths Cleveland founded and invented the first automatic wiper.However, it also requires manual pressing and holding a button to wipe the rainwater. It cannot be said to be completely automatic, so there are very few people willing to buy it. The long-term dismal sales situation eventually led to the loss of strength to Tri-Continental, which was acquired by the latter. After the growth of

, Tri-Continental then created a new type of vacuum wiper. It is driven by a vacuum pump to wipe water automatically, but wiper blades are prone to swing unsteadily with the speed of the vehicle, especially when the car climbs a hill, the wiper blades will stop, causing the driver's field of vision to blur. The current intermittent wiper has evolved based on this principle.

In the late 1920s, Charlotte Bridgford's electric wiper technology invented by later parts giant Bosch. At that time, Bosch was working hard to expand overseas markets. After the technology was put into production, its branch in Tienen, Belgium quickly grew into one of the top wiper manufacturers at that time, and it had to manufacture 350,000 wiper arms every day.

1957, Ford asked Dicken and his colleagues to design a wiper system that allows two wipers to work in parallel. This opens up our modern common double wiper mode. Subsequently, electric dual parallel wipers became the brand standard for Mercury and Lincoln and were immediately accepted by the market.

Classification of wiper wiper

Currently, we usually have three forms of movement on the market, namely parallel, opposite and cross. Single-arm wipers are currently rarely used and generally appear in some small cars.

In terms of installation location, in addition to the front windshield wiper, there is also a rear wiper at the rear windshield of the car, which can be seen on hatchbacks, station wagons, SUVs, and some minivans.

Of course, in addition to the body of the car, the headlights of the car were also equipped with headlights in a long time ago. But now this technology has been replaced, and many models use high-pressure spray to clean the car lights.

written at the end

Nowadays, many models are equipped with more advanced wipers, such as inductive wipers, which can automatically adjust the speed of the wiper swing according to the amount of rain; Mercedes-Benz's water spray wiper blades are designed in a row on the wiper blades, and glass water is evenly sprayed on the glass through these small holes to achieve the purpose of not blocking the view, better spraying effect, and saving glass water. It can be said that the development process and types of wipers are much more complicated than we imagined. Wiper wipers are now very mature, but this does not mean that wipers will stop improving. Perhaps one day in the future, wipers will have more convenient, practical and even unexpected functions.

However, it also requires manual pressing and holding a button to wipe the rainwater. It cannot be said to be completely automatic, so there are very few people willing to buy it. The long-term dismal sales situation eventually led to the loss of strength to Tri-Continental, which was acquired by the latter. After the growth of

, Tri-Continental then created a new type of vacuum wiper. It is driven by a vacuum pump to wipe water automatically, but wiper blades are prone to swing unsteadily with the speed of the vehicle, especially when the car climbs a hill, the wiper blades will stop, causing the driver's field of vision to blur. The current intermittent wiper has evolved based on this principle.

In the late 1920s, Charlotte Bridgford's electric wiper technology invented by later parts giant Bosch. At that time, Bosch was working hard to expand overseas markets. After the technology was put into production, its branch in Tienen, Belgium quickly grew into one of the top wiper manufacturers at that time, and it had to manufacture 350,000 wiper arms every day.

1957, Ford asked Dicken and his colleagues to design a wiper system that allows two wipers to work in parallel. This opens up our modern common double wiper mode. Subsequently, electric dual parallel wipers became the brand standard for Mercury and Lincoln and were immediately accepted by the market.

Classification of wiper wiper

Currently, we usually have three forms of movement on the market, namely parallel, opposite and cross. Single-arm wipers are currently rarely used and generally appear in some small cars.

In terms of installation location, in addition to the front windshield wiper, there is also a rear wiper at the rear windshield of the car, which can be seen on hatchbacks, station wagons, SUVs, and some minivans.

Of course, in addition to the body of the car, the headlights of the car were also equipped with headlights in a long time ago. But now this technology has been replaced, and many models use high-pressure spray to clean the car lights.

written at the end

Nowadays, many models are equipped with more advanced wipers, such as inductive wipers, which can automatically adjust the speed of the wiper swing according to the amount of rain; Mercedes-Benz's water spray wiper blades are designed in a row on the wiper blades, and glass water is evenly sprayed on the glass through these small holes to achieve the purpose of not blocking the view, better spraying effect, and saving glass water. It can be said that the development process and types of wipers are much more complicated than we imagined. Wiper wipers are now very mature, but this does not mean that wipers will stop improving. Perhaps one day in the future, wipers will have more convenient, practical and even unexpected functions.