[Steely Tom]

Biden: I Knew Hillary Would Lose Battleground States

I thought of intermittent windshield wipers before they appeared on the market.

[Mycroft Holmes]

I thought of intermittent windshield wipers before they appeared on the market.

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From the Wicki:

Robert William Kearns (March 10, 1927 – February 9, 2005) was an American inventor who invented the 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.

Kearns won one of the best known patent infringement cases against Ford Motor Company (1978–1990) and a case against Chrysler Corporation (1982–1992). Having invented and patented the intermittent windshield wiper mechanism, which was useful in light rain or mist, he tried to interest the "Big Three" auto makers in licensing the technology. They all rejected his proposal, yet began to install intermittent wipers in their cars, beginning in 1969.

[DoughtyOne]

I thought of rain before it first fell from the sky.

[arthurus]

Lucas Electric in Britain had intermittent windshield wipers decades before anyone else.