The two binary developements of the wiper blades and the motorcar go hand in hand as they are both so irreducibly combined in terms of their history and amplification over the ages. The automobile was often trusted to a man named Robert Ford and today’s contemporary form reflects a myriad of evolutionary steps from those ancient days. Some people place the number of separate inventions and therefore patents in regard to the development of the automobile at approx one hundred thousand. This translates to a truly mind boggling number of parts constituting the wiper blades which together make up the present day automobile. The earliest form of car could be seen as steam powered automobiles and was called a military tractor by its French inventor Mr Cugnot when it was engineered in 1769. Although this sort did not have any wiper blades it was the ancestor of all those that would and is therefore very important in the annals of both the car and the wiper blades. It was made by the French military to haul artillery pieces to and from the battlefield, unluckily in order to build up the necessary amount of steam it was required to stop and regenerate every couple of minutes.

Still no wipers but at the moment this was a giant leap forward in steam engine technology these appliances burned fossil fuels such as coal in order to heat up water in a tank generating steam which could then be accumulated to push pistons to turn a crankshaft and hence the wheels. The wipers was not to emerge until much later when Robert Ford beget turning out the model-t Ford in giant numbers at the turn of the twentieth century. Looking back now its unbelievable that as early as 1831 a scot named Robert Anderson was making electric powered cars using a small battery and electric motors. Unfortunately for Mr Anderson the car was ambling expensive and claimed frequent recharging which is not all that separate from the obstacles encountered by today’s electric car makers. The wipers would not come until a alternative form of the internal combustion engine was designed and put in a cheap chassis which could run of petrol. Electricity was used very successful in trams and trains which in some ways are directly responsible for the invention of the very first windscreen wipers model.

The replacement wiper blades was designed by a person who on taking a road trip to New York declared how the tram drivers would stick their hands out of the window in order to cleanse the wind screen, this observation would form the impetus to design and make the very initial replacement wiper blades prototype. The first petrol generated engine was attributed to a gent named Nicolas Otto who engineered and built the first four stroke internal combustion engine which was fitted into a motor cycle and so didn’t need any replacement wiper blades. The first gas powered car was later coined by a man named Karl Benz in 1886 and was a three wheel design and the company beget by Mr Benz became the worlds largest up to around 1900.