rain on my windscreen

By the time I left home this morning, they had already been gone. My windscreen wipers.
I checked on wiki if anybody had seen them. It turns out they’re quite famous:


"A common windscreen wiper arm and blade. "
The thief actually left the arms, took only the blades with him.

"A windscreen wiper (windshield wiper in North America) is a device used to wipe rain and dirt from a windscreen. Almost all motor vehicles, including trains, aircraft and watercraft, are equipped with windscreen wipers, which are usually a legal requirement."
Well, as for my car - not anymore.

and "Windscreen wiper on a parked car."

Now a distant memory.

They have a history:

"Inventor J. H. Apjohn devised a method of moving two brushes up and down on a vertical plate glass windscreen in 1903. Mary Anderson is said to have invented the windscreen wiper swinging arm in the United States, where she patented the idea in 1903. The idea was initially met with resistance, but was a standard feature on all American cars by 1916. "

I gotta go now, have to find some auto parts and accessories store.

windscreen wipers - wycieraczki

arm - tu: ramię wycieraczki

blade - tu: pióro wycieraczki

motor vehicle - pojazd mechaniczny

watercraft - pojazd wodny

as for my car - jeśli chodzi o moje auto

devise - wymyslić

brush - szczotka

was met with resistance - napotkał opór

auto parts store - sklep z częściami samochodowymi