Background
Josephine was the daughter of John Garis, a civil engineer, and Irene Fitch Garis. Hallie Cochran (birthdate – death) Hallie was the son of William and Josephine Cochran.
Josephine was the daughter of John Garis, a civil engineer, and Irene Fitch Garis. Hallie Cochran (birthdate – death) Hallie was the son of William and Josephine Cochran.
She had one sister, Irene Garis Ransom. Her grandfather, John Fitch, was an inventor who was awarded a steamboat patent. She was raised in Valparaiso, Indiana, where she went to private school until the school burnt down.
Death Josephine died of a stroke or exhaustion in Chicago, Illinois, on August 14, 1913, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Shelbyville, Illinois.
Other attempts had been made to produce a commercially viable dishwasher. In 1850, Joel Houghton designed a hand-cranked dish soaker.
In the 1860s, L. A. Alexander improved on the device with a geared mechanism that allowed the user to spin racked dishes through a tub of water. Neither of these devices was particularly effective.
Josephine designed the first model of her dishwasher in the shed behind her house located in Shelbyville, Illinois.
George Butters was a mechanic who assisted her in the construction of the first dishwasher. He was also an employee at the first dishwasher factory. To build the machine, she first measured the dishes and built wire compartments, each specially designed to fit either plates, cups, or saucers.
The compartments were placed inside a wheel that lay flat inside a copper boiler.
A motor turned the wheel while hot soapy water squirted up from the bottom of the boiler and rained down on the dishes. Her dishwasher was the first to use water pressure instead of scrubbers to clean the dishes inside the machine.
The word spread, and soon after, Cochrane was getting orders for her dish washing machine from restaurants and hotels in Illinois. She patented her design and went into production.
The factory business, Garis-Cochran, began in 1897.
lieutenant wasn"t until the 1950s when dishwashers became a typical household item. lieutenant became more well-known, and most households had the capabilities to hold one of these dishwashers by this time. These early dishwashers required a great amount of hot water, so houses had to be modified for this new technology with the proper plumbing.