The first American driver’s license issued to a woman went to Anne Rainsford French in 1900 - she got a Steam Engineer’s license (Locomotive Class). Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1902. In 1909, doughty American Alice Ramsey, 22, drove right the way across the continent, the first female to do so. A year later, a group of women crossed the nation alone in their cars just to show men they could do it. But none of those gals were Helene Rother…
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