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The Woman Who Invented the Dishwasher Because Her Servants Kept Breaking the China
In 1886, Josephine Cochrane watched her servants chip another piece of her fine china.
And she said the line that would change kitchens forever: "If nobody else is going to invent a dishwashing machine, I'll do it myself."
She wasn't an engineer. She wasn't a scientist. She was a wealthy Illinois socialite who was tired of her dinner parties costing her heirloom porcelain.
In this episode of Hidden History with Aiden Thomas, we trace the dishwasher from ancient Roman sand and wood ash, through the two hours a day people spent scrubbing by hand, to Cochrane's revolutionary…
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