Josephine+Cochrane

=**JOSEPHINE COCHRANE**=

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SHE INVENTED THE DISHWASHER (which helps you with the dishes!)!!!!!!!!!!!!


 * ====**Born:** March 8, 1839 in Ashtabula County OH====
 * ====**Died:** August 3 1913 in Chicago IL (due to exhaustion)====
 * ====**Contribution:** Invented the dishwasher because her servants kept chipping and breaking her precious and expensive Chinaware.====
 * ====**R****eligion:** Unitarian====
 * ====**Family:** husband: William Cochrane, Daughter: Katherine Cochran, Son:Hallie Cochran====

Josephine Cochrane (AKA Josephine M Fitch) was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio and lived for 74 years. Josephine's life was pretty good: She married a successful grocer, William Cochran (Josephine added the "e" later on herself)and was quite rich and happy. When her husband died, she was depressed,and wanted company, so held many dinner parties. She moved to Chicago after inventing the dishwasher and died later on due to exhaustion. Earlier on, I have said something about the dinner parties. It was because of them that the dishwasher was invented because Josephine's servants kept breaking and chipping her precious and expensive china-ware. With help from a friend, George Butters, the first efficient dishwasher (powered by a hand crank) was made. She then improved it and made it powered by a steam engine making this chore easier done. At first, Cochrane's machine was sold primarily to hotels and restaurants. Then after a while, homes adapted to the dish washer as well, becoming more and more popular. The dishwasher won 1st prize at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and won honors for "best mechanical construction, durability and adaptation to its line of work." Josephine then opened her own factory in 1897. After Cochrane's death, her company was purchased by The Hobart Manufacturing Company, now famous for its industrial dishwashing machines. Hobart introduced home dishwashers under the Kitchen-Aid brand. (which is now owned by Whirlpool.)

**Helpful Links**
Josephine Cochrane's Eulogy [|The Map of Inventors] [|Info on Josephine] [|Even more info by Wikipedia]