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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The history of invention is populated with eccentric and willful characters, stories of serendipity, and accompanying flashes of insight. Bob Kearns was one of those characters. The tale of his epic and lonely fight against Ford Motor Company, which ended up destroying his marriage and...
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Gilmore Girls News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Lauren Graham’s Flash of Genius will come to DVD on February 17, 2009. The movie, based on the true story of Robert Kearns, follows auto giant’s theft of the invention of the intermittent windshield wiper. A family man and college professor, Robert Kearns thinks he struck gold for his family when he invents a device [...]
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Cyril Huze Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Just released on the big screen, the true story about the invention, theft and the 30-year legal battle over the intermittent windshield wiper. Big corporations have time, money to pay high profile lawyers and power on their side. All the inventor Bob Kearns had was the... This is a content summary only. Click on headlines for full links, images, other content and more!