“If nobody else is going to invent a dishwashing machine, I’ll do it myself.” That proclamation from Ohioan engineer Josephine Cochrane — who was, incidentally, granddaughter of steamboat inventor John Fitch –started a revolution in homemaking that some 60-years in the making resulted in the popularization of the dishwasher. Cochrane filed a patent in 1886 for… Read More on Tech Crunch