What did they invent ?

In 1903 , Mary Anderson and a friend were driving to New York . It was raining heavily and they had to open the windows of their car and put their heads out to see better . Suddenly Mary had an idea .
In 1869 , Thomas Adams was trying to produce rubber out of the juice he got from Mexican sapodilla trees. He wanted to produce toys , rain boots and bicycle tyres . The experiment didn’t work . While he was thinking about this , he took a piece of the rubber he was working winth and put it in his mouth .
In 1897 , British inventor James Henry Atkinson was looking at the family’s supply of potatoes , which they kept in a room under their house . He noticed that mice had eaten some of the potatoes so he invented something that he called “Little Nipper ” to stop them.
In 1886 , Josephine Cochran was standing in her kitchen in lllions , USA . The family was a mountain of dishes in front of Mrs Cochran and she got quite angry , thinking that she had to do this job every day . “If nobody else is going to invent a machine for this , I’ll do it myself “, she thought.
In the early years of the eighteenth century , in the middle of the summer , am unknown
Dutchman was looking at one of the many canals in Holland . He was thinking that he often travelled along the frozen canals on ice skates in the winter . He got a little impatient . “I don’t want to wait for winter ! ” he thought .