Qi: the book of General Ignorance - the Noticeably Stouter Edition
“Its main purpose was to reduce the number of breakages caused by servants, rather than to act as a labour-saving device.
The first practical mechanical dishwasher was invented in 1886 by Josephine Garis Cochran (1839–1913) of Shelbyville, Illinois. She was the daughter of a civil engineer and, on her mother’s side, the great-granddaughter of John ‘Crazy’ Fitch, the inventor of the steamboat. A prominent socialite, married to a merchant and politician, her main problem in life was worrying about... the maids chipping her precious china (it had been in the family since the seventeenth century).
This enraged her and, so the story goes, one night she dismissed the servants, did the dishes on her own, saw what an impossible job it was and vowed, if no one else would, to invent a machine to do it instead. When her husband William died in 1883, leaving her in debt, she got serious.
With the help of an engineer friend, she designed the machine in her woodshed. It was crude and cumbersome but effective.MoreLess
The first practical mechanical dishwasher was invented in 1886 by Josephine Garis Cochran (1839–1913) of Shelbyville, Illinois. She was the daughter of a civil engineer and, on her mother’s side, the great-granddaughter of John ‘Crazy’ Fitch, the inventor of the steamboat. A prominent socialite, married to a merchant and politician, her main problem in life was worrying about... the maids chipping her precious china (it had been in the family since the seventeenth century).
This enraged her and, so the story goes, one night she dismissed the servants, did the dishes on her own, saw what an impossible job it was and vowed, if no one else would, to invent a machine to do it instead. When her husband William died in 1883, leaving her in debt, she got serious.
With the help of an engineer friend, she designed the machine in her woodshed. It was crude and cumbersome but effective.MoreLess
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