{"id":111818,"date":"2017-11-28T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:14:10","slug":"the-windscreen-wiper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/the-windscreen-wiper-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windscreen Wiper"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 1908 FA Cup Final was played at Crystal Palace between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Newcastle United. <\/div>\n
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The omens looked bad when before the match the ground was lashed with rain, sleet and heavy snow showers. But just before the kick off the skies cleared and a crowd of 75,000 watched Wolves win 3-1 in bright sunshine.<\/div>\n
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Something good came of the snow showers, however. One Wolves supporter, Captain Gladstone Adams, drove to the match in his motor-car, something of a novelty in those days. But as he drove through the snowstorm he struggled to see where he was going as the snow stuck to his windscreen, and he was forced to fold down his windscreen. That gave him the idea for inventing the windscreen wiper, which he patented in 1911.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 1908 FA Cup Final was played at Crystal Palace between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Newcastle United. The omens looked bad when before the match the ground was lashed with rain, sleet and heavy snow showers. But just before the kick off the skies cleared and a crowd of 75,000 watched Wolves win 3-1 in bright […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t