Posted on 09/27/2019 9:33:24 AM PDT by Jagermonster
>> Josephine Cochran set out to invent a better dishwashing machine. Widowed early in this effort, <<
Umm... What happened???
Hand-washing is still the best. You still have to rinse the dishes beforehand and put them in the machine. Might as just wash the damn things yourself.
Makes it sound like she put him in one of her early efforts only to find out it wasn’t gentle enough.
I’m not worthy enough so have to handwash dishes.
My grandmother (born 1903) called them “electric sinks”.
According to the excerpt at the top of this thread, alcoholism.
Now that they have the right to vote they can legislative wonderful things into existence.
I was going to complain that you hadn’t gotten my joke about the way the context made it seem as if his death was related to her efforts to invent a dishwasher, but the notion that his death was related to an early attempt AND alcoholism is pretty funny, too.
If she were a man, inventing the dishwasher and building a business would have been a piece of cake.
Damned patriarchy.
Josephine Garis Cochran was the inventor of the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher, which she constructed together with mechanic George Butters
Well, the early prototypes were so large that they could only be sold to major hotels for a reason. One must wonder if Mr. Cochran was a big guy...
Not in the Sixties. I remember GE's original "Potscrubber" machine.
It could take a dried up, baked on Corning casserole dish and came out sparkling.
We have "environmentally" crippled them into becoming what you have observed.
Damn she was good-looking!!!
(Expressing the thoughts of every man on this thread).
The design (for institutional use) is still the same . Smart driven Lady...good for her.
I really don’t get dishwashers. It takes more time loading and unloading them that is does to just wash the dishes by hand.
. . . As opposed to the walk in the park it always has been for male inventors. It's true she had the surprise factor working against her. But on the other hand, since her forebears and her husband had been inventors and successful businessmen (at least at times), she had an understanding of the process, plus a social network that some poor kid like Thomas Alva Edison, who came from nothing, would have envied.
Kudos to her. Using water pressure instead of mechanical scrubbing action was brilliant and critical to the lasting value of the invention. It was also something only someone who had lived in a rich man's house would have thought of--since only the rich had water pressure at all. The authors might have spared us the sob story.
Our American invention output has not been improved by the fat hand of today's government equality nazis--who squeeze corporations to use an expected quota of female- and minority-run supplier companies instead of merely the ones management thinks will do the best job for the price.
Husband died..................
How many men over the centuries have said “Geez. Nobody will help me. I’ll do it myself” and just went ahead and did it?
But hey, she was a woman, it fits some narrative somewhere that nobody would help her because she was a woman.
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