Josephine Cochrane

American inventor (1839–1913)

Josephine Cochran (later Cochrane; née Garis; March 8, 1839 – August 3, 1913) was an American inventor who invented and manufactured the first successful hand-powered dishwasher. Once her patent issued on December 28, 1886, she founded Garis-Cochrane Manufacturing Company to manufacture her machines. Cochrane showed her new machine at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 where nine Garis-Cochran washers were installed in the restaurants and pavilions of the fair and was met with interest from restaurants and hotels, where hot water access was not an issue.

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