Gladstone Adams
(1880-1966)
photographer, inventor, and inventor of the car windscreen wiper (from 1911)
Commemorated on 1 plaque
Gladstone Adams 1880-1966. Inventor and Photographer. Invented the car windscreen wiper in 1911. He was born 16 May 1880 at 4 St Anne's Row, close to the Ouseburn Mission which occupied this building from 1869.
Ouseburn Mission, City Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom where they was born near (1880)