From Wiki,
History
Inventor J. H. Apjohn came up with a method of moving two brushes up and down on a vertical plate glass windshield in 1903.
Mary Anderson is said to have invented the windshield wiper swinging arm in the United States, where she patented the idea in 1905. The idea was initially met with resistance, but was a standard feature on all American cars by 1916.
Not from Wiki,
I think it was Elton John the first person to install wipers on his eye-glasses.
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