Gilded Age socialite Josephine Cochrane transformed the way we clean dishes. By Sarah Durn. Published Mar 8, 2025 1:01 PM EST.

Josephine Cochrane ran a highly successful business and continued to refine her designs. She died in 1913 and it wasn’t until the 1950s that dishwashers — direct descendants of her original ...

Josephine Cochrane is not a household name, but she made our household lives significantly more manageable. In 1883, after the death of her husband left her in considerable debt, the Ohio native ...

Josephine Cochrane Invented The Modern Dishwasher — In 1886. March 11, 2025 by Donald Papp 42 Comments . Popular Science has an excellent article on how Josephine Cochrane transformed how ...

Josephine Cochrane. Broken plates and seemingly endless post-meal cleaning inspired this wonder of modern kitchen technology: the dishwasher. Josephine Cochrane (1839 - 1913) was an American ...

Elsewhere in the book, we learn about Josephine Cochrane, an American socialite and inventor from the late-1800s who enjoyed hosting fancy dinner parties in her Chicago mansion. Like Agrawal, ...

Josephine Cochrane faced challenges from male investors seeking control of her business but chose to move forward ...

Thomas Edison, born in Milan, is portrayed with the lightbulb and phonograph he invented in the 1870s. Josephine Cochrane, born in Ashtabula County, is depicted next to her hand-powered dishwasher.

Erin Birum, of Columbus, carves the fine details into the sculpture of Ohio inventor Josephine Cochrane. A team of Ohio-based sculptors spent 360 hours in a 46-degree cooler to create this year ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—The 2023 butter cow sculpture, an Ohio State Fair tradition, honors the cream of Ohio’s rich history of inventors. The sculpture, unveiled Tuesday ahead of Wednesday’s fair ...