Auto Detailing History, Products, and The Inventors In 1888 Friedrich Menzer founded a chemical factory in the city of Pforzheim, Germany, to manufacture fine polishing agents for gold and other precious metals. The company succeeded in producing Paris Reda, which was considered the best fine polish for gold, but otherwise, the polish company was slow to take off. Menzer then moved his company to nearby Karlsruhe in 1899 and systematically opened branches in foreign markets starting in 1921. In 1905 Mary Anderson first decided that automobiles could use a wiper blade when she saw motorists emerging from their vehicles to clean their windshields by hand. It was November 1903. Her spring-loaded wiper arm was patented in 1905 and then replaced by a mechanical arm in 1913. Since then, the wiper blade has pretty much remained the same. And in 1910 when the motor car was still somewhat of an […]
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