# Robert Kearns

> Robert William Kearns was an American mechanical engineer, educator, and inventor who invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. His first patent for the invention was filed on December 1, 1964, after a few previous designs by other inventors had failed to gain any traction in manufacturing.

*American engineer and inventor (1927-2005)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1927-03-10
- **Died:** 2005-02-09
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
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