Robert W. Kearns Papers
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- Creators:
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Brown, Brian Ivan
Kearns, Robert W.
Kearns, Timothy
Quan, John
More … - Dates:
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1963 - 1999
- Size:
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8.5 Cubic feet (24 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1406
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the inventive career of physicist and engineer Robert W. Kearns. Kearns invented and patented in 1967 the windshield wiper system with intermittent operation (US 3,351,836), among other inventions. The papers include notebooks, correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, patents, drawings, and trade literature.
