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Robert Kearns I found to be very interesting in his obsession with all things electronic. Although a very remarkable victory it was bitter sweet to see what it all amounted to. Money at the end of the day does not mean anything if there isn’t anyone to share it with. I believe in fighting for what is mine but not at the extent of my loved ones. When looking into this a little more the character portrayed was nothing like the real individual. “Kearns has already paid a high price for the sake of justice: a failed marriage, a nervous breakdown and long years in litigation. When he began tinkering with his revolutionary wiper, in 1962, he was an engineering professor at Michigan's Wayne State University and a small-time inventor (his early credits included a comb that dispensed its own hair tonic). Kearns installed an experimental version of his "intermittent wiper" in the family's Ford Galaxie in 1963 and brought it to Ford. The company hired him as a consultant, worked with him for six years—and then dropped him. Instead of the supplier's contract he had hoped for, Kearns got a handshake and a wiper motor mounted on a plaque.”
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