It was also patented by a woman, which was almost unheard of the time. Of course, none of this was on the mind of Mrs. Josephine Cochrane, who built and patented the first commercially successful ...

"If nobody else is going to invent a dish-washing machine, I'll do it myself." With those words, Josephine Cochrane set out in 1886 to contrive a way to clean tableware more quickly and with less ...

WASHINGTON — “If nobody else is going to invent a dishwashing machine, I’ll do it myself.” With those words, Josephine Cochrane set out in 1886 to contrive a way to clean tableware more quickly and ...

Popular Science has an excellent article on how Josephine Cochrane transformed how dishes are cleaned by inventing an automated dish washing machine and obtaining a patent in 1886. Dishwashers had ...

Dishwashers have come a long way since Illinois socialite Josephine Cochrane invented back in the 1880s what later became the KitchenAid. Still, they don’t last forever. Removing an undercounter ...

What was new when? Here are some appliance milestones from the book, "America at Home: A Celebration of Twentieth Century Housewares," published by the International Housewares Association. 1886: ...

The Ohio State Fair will kick off Wednesday in Columbus and organizers are preparing with an annual tradition.On Tuesday, organizers unveiled the butter cow, a fair tradition.The sculpture this year ...