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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.
A dishwasher containing clean dishes. A dishwasher is a machine that is used to clean dishware, cookware, and cutlery automatically. Unlike manual dishwashing, which relies on physical scrubbing to remove soiling, the mechanical dishwasher cleans by spraying hot water, typically between 45 and 75 °C (110 and 170 °F), at the dishes, with lower temperatures of water used for delicate items.
The first dishwasher was a wooden one whereby a person would turn a handle to splash water on the dishware. It was invented in 1850 by Joel Houghton of Ogden, New York. The device was a failure. [109] Houghton received U.S. patent #7,365 on May 14, 1850. [110] The first successful and practical dishwasher was invented in 1886 by Josephine Cochrane.
Bibliography of early American publishers and printers is a selection of books, journals and other sigmass devoted to these topics covering their careers and other activities before, during and after the American Revolution. Various works that are not primarily devoted to those topics, but whose content devotes itself to them in significant ...
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In 1917, Hobart stand mixers became standard equipment on all U.S. Navy ships, prompting development to begin on the first home models. [1] A modern KitchenAid stand mixer. The first machine with the KitchenAid name is the ten-quart C-10 model, introduced in 1918 and built at Hobart's Troy Metal Products subsidiary in Springfield, Ohio. [2]
The concept was that, instead of washboarding or dragging the clothes, they would be gently agitated. Maytag first introduced this new washer, the 'Gyrafoam', and became exclusively an appliance company. 1924: By 1924, one of every five washing machines were made by Maytag in Newton, IA. 1924: Maytag introduced its first iron. 1925
A typical printing press of the 18th century. List of early American publishers and printers is a stand alone list of Wikipedia articles about publishers and printers in colonial and early America, intended as a quick reference, with basic descriptions taken from the ledes of the respective articles.