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Article: A machine to wash dishes - gently.(The Home Forum)(Kid Space)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 7, 1999
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In 1886, Josephine Cochrane said, "If nobody else is going to invent a dishwashing machine, I'll do it myself." It wasn't because she didn't like doing the dishes. Mrs. Cochrane was a wealthy woman who never washed dishes; her servants did. But her servants also tended to break dishes, too, especially when there were lots of them to wash after a party.
Cochrane thought that if she could make a machine that washed dishes, she wouldn't have to spend all that time and money ordering new dishes to replace broken ones.
She rigged up wire compartments into which her dishes, cups, and saucers would fit. Then the compartments were fastened around a wheel that ...