Josephine+Cochrane's+Eulogy

**The Eulogy of Josephine Cochrane**
===Today, I sadly have to say that, Josephine Cochrane, a good friend, and loyal companion to all of us here, has left this world to go to a better place. She lived a good long and happy life of 74 years, born on March 8, 1839, calling Ashtabula County(Ohio) her childhood home. It is with great sorrow I am forced to say that it was because of the exhaustion in her life that made this tragic event happen and we are all gathered here in Chicago, to pay our respects.=== ===Her husband, William Cochran (Josephine added the ‘e’ afterwards herself) passed away due to serious sickness, leaving poor Josephine sad and lonely, yet lots of money. She really needed some things to overcome her grief therefore held many fancy dinner parties.=== ===I can still remember very well all the good old days when she held dinner parties with all that delicious food and all those beautiful chinaware. And of course I have to mention the wonderful device she invented. The dishwasher. This helpful contraption was made because her servants kept breaking and chipping all her expensive and precious dishes. “If no-one is going to invent something that washes dishes without breaking them, I’ll do it myself.” she remarked. And she did, with a little help from her friend, George Butters, she created the first efficient dishwasher, powered by a hand crank. And we all know that she was much happier after this, and her dishes started to look in much better conditions.=== ===Somehow though, she was still not content and wanted to improve her invention. Josephine worked harder then ever and finally produced a mechanical version, powered by a steam engine, winning her pride, honors such as "best mechanical construction, durability and adaptation to its line of work."and top prize for “worlds columbian exposition”, and clean unbroken dishes.===