windshield-wiper

Updated: May 11, 2025

"Glass," said the eccentric character promptly. "Some kind of glass. Bless my windshield-wiper, what was it? Oh, yes! Flexible glass, that was it." Tom and Ned exchanged startled glances. For many months experiments directed toward the production of a glass as bendable as rubber had been going forward in the Swift plant.

Victor [pseud.] Appleton - Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope