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Josephine Garis (later known as Cochrane) Cochran
Personal Information
Born: 1839
Died: 1913
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: White
Education
no formal education past high school
Professional Life
Field of Study: Inventor
Institution/Corporation: Garis-Cochrane Manufacturing Company, became Cochran s Crescent Washing Machine Company in 1897, then bought by KitchenAid in 1926, then aquired by Whirlpool Corp in 1986
Degrees & Memberships: none
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 2006, National Inventors Hall of Fame; 1893 at World s Columbian Exposition, was awarded Best Mechanical Construction, durability, & adaptation to its line of work for her dish washer; 2013, Hungary issued a stamp in her honor
Achievements: 1st hand-powered dish washer to use hot water & water pressure to clean dishes instead of scrubbers; sold to hotels & restaurants from Mexico to Canada; opened her own factory to manufacture the machines
Invented the 1st successful hand-powered dishwasher; patent issued 1886
Founded Garis-Cochran Manufacturing Company to make her machines
1893, 9 of her washers were installed at the World's Columbian Expo in Chicago & were met with interest from hotels & restaurants; won the prize for "best mechanical construction, durability & adaptation to its line of work"
1913, her company became part of KitchenAid through the Hobart Manufacturing Company after her death
Invented the dishwasher because she was tired of her dishes getting chipped during hand-washing & wanted to relieve the tired housewives of the chore of washing dishes after a meal
Her machine was the 1st to use water pressure instead of scrubbers to wash dishes
Held 5 patents