Does anyone know of another popular David and Goliath type story?

College professor/inventor Robert Kearns was a hard-working married man with six kids and a middle-class lifestyle. A bizarre accident on his honeymoon left him with a damaged eye, which strangely enough inspired him to invent the intermittent windshield wiper. A device we take for granted today, back in the '60s every automotive company was trying to come up with adjustable speed wipers. Robert believed windshield wipers should blink every so often, adjusting to the climate as does the human eye. His invention - "The Kearns Blinking Eye Motor" - sparked the interest of the Ford Motor Company and along with his longtime friend, automotive dealership owner Gil Previck ), Robert made a deal to manufacture the units for Ford.

However as he was moving forward with renting a warehouse and setting up production, Ford told him they were no longer interested in his invention. The news was devastating to the entire Kearns family, but especially so to Robert who saw the sale of his invention to Ford as a way of making his family more comfortable. Adding insult to injury, shortly after receiving the bad news Robert discovered his unit was indeed being installed in Ford's new Mustangs without his permission, without any recompense, and without crediting him with its invention.

Frustrated and with limited options, Robert decided to take on the Ford Motor Company in court. He and his partner held the patents, but proving the device Ford was using in their cars was actually the Kearns Blinking Eye Motor proved to be a decades-long uphill battle. Ford had millions at their disposal to fight Robert in court, but Robert was a man obsessed with justice. Any financial settlement he stood to receive paled in comparison with his desire to get Ford to admit they stole his invention.

Robert's lengthy fight took its toll on his relationship with his wife and children, his work, and his mental health. Still, the inventor would not give up and took on one of America's biggest companies in an effort to protect the rights of all inventors.

Real story, no blood and gore, but true to life, the film made on it was called Flash of Genius.

the julia roberts movie, Erin Brockovich. i think it was based on a real story of a secretary for a small law firm who went up against a powerful entity. and she won. she also liked to flaunt her cleavage. but the storyline is that a lowly secretary dares to go against an evil powerful company, and because of her tenacity she prevailed. and because she was sexy doing it, it became a movie.

i never watched the movie so cant tell you more.

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how about the childrens story of the turtle and the hare. the turtle is david and the hare is goliah. the turtle and the hare was in a race. the hare was fast and the turlte was slow, so how can the turtle possibly win. but in the end, it was the underdog turtle who triamphed against the hare.