I love Alabama. Graduated from High School in Gadsden and Nursing school in Birmingham.
Doug Rogers
The world’s first Electric Trolley System
I remember this story from Alabama History when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade (60 years ago). First attempts at a new invention often need a little refining. The electricity ran through the rails! A man was riding his horse down town. When the horse’s metal shoes can in contact with rails, it was killed.
My great grandfather Henry Clay Mann was a driver on the “Lightning Route,” as the streetcar system was known in Montgomery. In this capacity he was credited with saving a life. A little girl, paying no attention, wandered onto the tracks right in front of his streetcar. Mr. Mann stopped the trolley immediately by “body checking” the brake hard enough that it could not be manually released. A mechanic had to come out and disassemble the brake mechanism to get the trolley moving.
February 19, 1866
Greene County, Alabama
Died
June 27, 1953 (aged 87)
Monteagle, Tennessee
Occupation
Real Estate Developer, rancher, viticulturist, Inventor
Known for
The Windshield Wiper (invented 1902, patented 1903)
Mary Elizabeth Anderson (February 19, 1866 – June 27, 1953)[1] was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. On November 10, 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent[2] for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from inside the car, called the windshield wiper
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I love Alabama. Graduated from High School in Gadsden and Nursing school in Birmingham.
The world’s first Electric Trolley System
I remember this story from Alabama History when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade (60 years ago). First attempts at a new invention often need a little refining. The electricity ran through the rails! A man was riding his horse down town. When the horse’s metal shoes can in contact with rails, it was killed.
[…] Established first practical electric railway in U.S in Montgomery […]
Russell Cave in Colbert County.
My great grandfather Henry Clay Mann was a driver on the “Lightning Route,” as the streetcar system was known in Montgomery. In this capacity he was credited with saving a life. A little girl, paying no attention, wandered onto the tracks right in front of his streetcar. Mr. Mann stopped the trolley immediately by “body checking” the brake hard enough that it could not be manually released. A mechanic had to come out and disassemble the brake mechanism to get the trolley moving.
Yea Alabama!!!
Let us not forget Mary Anderson Born
February 19, 1866
Greene County, Alabama
Died
June 27, 1953 (aged 87)
Monteagle, Tennessee
Occupation
Real Estate Developer, rancher, viticulturist, Inventor
Known for
The Windshield Wiper (invented 1902, patented 1903)
Mary Elizabeth Anderson (February 19, 1866 – June 27, 1953)[1] was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. On November 10, 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent[2] for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from inside the car, called the windshield wiper