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Josephine Cochran, whose grandfather was also an inventor and was awarded a steamboat patent, is best known as the inventor of the dishwasher. But the history of the appliance goes back a little further. Learn more about how the dishwasher came to be and Josephine Cochran's role in its development.
Josephine Cochran (later Cochrane; née Garis; March 8, 1839 – August 3, 1913) was an American inventor [1] who invented the first successful hand-powered dishwasher, which she designed and then constructed with the assistance of mechanic George Butters, who became one of her first employees.
Josephine Garis Cochran invented the first modern dishwasher in the 1880s. Unlike previous attempts at dishwashing machines, which used scrubbers on the dishes, Cochran’s machine...
The most successful of the hand-powered dishwashers was invented in 1886 by Josephine Cochrane together with mechanic George Butters in Cochrane's tool shed in Shelbyville, Illinois [6] when Cochrane (a wealthy socialite) wanted to protect her china while it was being washed. [7]
Josephine Cochran invented the first practical dishwasher and formed the Garis-Cochran Dish-Washing Co. to manufacture and market it. Cochran was born in Ohio. After moving to Illinois, Cochran set out to design a washing device after commonly finding plateware chipped from hand washing.
Josephine Cochrane, the inventor of the dishwasher. It was in late December 1886, when Cochrane, by then 47 years old and a widow, patented the world’s first effective dishwasher. A couple of men had tried to construct similar machines a few decades earlier, but they failed.
Josephine Cochrane, inventor of the first commercially successful dishwashing machine, was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio in 1839. Her father was a civil engineer, and her great grandfather, John Fitch, was an inventor known for his steamboat-related innovations.
Called the Garis-Cochran Dishwashing Machine, it was the only invention on display invented by a woman, and there were nine others just like it being used in the exposition’s many restaurants, from the Big Kitchen to the New England Clam Bake.
She named her creation the Garis-Cochran Dish-Washing Machine. With a U.S. patent and a sheaf of testimonials, Mrs. Cochrane turned to the invention of something as complex as any dishwasher: a company to market a new invention.
History credits Mrs. Josephine Garis Cochrane [also spelled Cochran], an imaginative lady in the Midwest, for devising a machine in the 1880s to do her dishes. The dishwashing device was simply a box-like affair with a motor and pulley-driven pump to pump the water that sprayed the dishes.