"Tom Gardner" wrote:

I'm seeing previews for the movie about the invention of intermittent wipers
in '63. Think how things have changed in 45 years. Today, a manager at a
design firm would tell a group of engineers to design such a system and have
several designs on his desk by the end of the day. True, they didn't have
555s in '63. So, is it that a unique idea is a lot more important than the
actual design?

It must have been at least a decade or longer ago that I read about this gent winning his
case in the Detroit Free Press. Guy was tenacious.

Wes