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 ...

The murder in May 1959 was a watershed in British race relations. Sixty years later, Mark Olden joins Cochrane’s daughter Josephine as she arrives in London to trace the last steps of the father ...

Josephine Cochrane was a wealthy socialite in the 1800s, and was born into a family with a scientific background: her father was a hydraulic engineer, while her grandfather, John Fitch, was famous ...

Earlier this year, many people freaked out over the news that basic modern kitchen appliances like microwaves, refrigerators and dishwashers could be spying on their owners. As experts have said ...

The first dishwasher was invented in 1892. Tired of servants breaking her dishes, Josephine Cochrane rigged a copper pot with stiff brushes and a motor. It worked so well that she showed it at the ...

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 ...

Dishwashers have come a long way since Illinois socialite Josephine Cochrane invented back in the 1880s what later became the KitchenAid. Still, they don’t last forever. Removing an undercounter ...

Washing dishes is awful. It’s the kind of chore that never ends—pretty much every time you eat or drink, you make something dirty. Thankfully, a woman named Josephine Cochrane, who was really ...

Having John Fitch, the inventor of the steamboat, as her grandfather meant two things for Josephine Cochrane. First, she had engineering in her blood and, second, she was pretty well-heeled. So ...