Popular Science has an excellent article on how Josephine Cochrane transformed how dishes are cleaned by inventing an automated dish washing machine and obtaining a patent in 1886. Dishwashers had ...

The dishwasher was made in America, though there is some dispute over who did it. That’s because there are two rival American inventors of the dishwasher, with dueling patents. Credit comes down to ...

“When he saw that our house had a dishwasher, the first thing he did was forbid us kids from using it.” Her father banned dishwasher use because he “genuinely believed that allowing his children to ...