Image: Windshield Cleaner - from Patent
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Description: This is Figure 1 "a front elevation of the body of an electric car fitted with the invention" (a window cleaner (or windshield wiper in today's vernacular).
Title: Windshield Cleaner - from Patent
Credit: US Patent 609,787, dated August 30, 1898 for a 'window-cleaner' by GEORGE J. CAPEWELL, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT. This is 'Figure 1' showing the front of a trolley fitted with a window cleaner (or wiper in current vernacular).
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