Gladstone Adams, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGladstone Adams
Chairman of Whitley Bay Urban District Council
Date of Birth: 16-May-1880
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1966
Profession: businessperson, inventor
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Gladstone Adams
- Captain Gladstone Adams (16 May 1880 – 26 July 1966) was a former chairman of Whitley Bay Urban District Council, but is noted in some circles for his invention of the windscreen wiper (known in the United States as the windshield wiper) - though Mary Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from inside the car, called the windshield wiper in November 1903.
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