Josephine Cochran,
Inventor of the first Mechanical Dishwashers
Shelby County (Illinois) A Learning On-Line Resource Page by Howard
Taylor
Did you know? . ..
The First Automatic
Dishwasher was invented right in Shelby
County, Illinois
Here are a couple of old Chicago
newspaper pictures of the dishwasher.
Would it fit into your kitchen with granite counter-tops, stainless
steel appliances?
THE DISHWASHER:
This is a commercial washer, and it would be some time before a
consumer version would be built and sold, but it
happened!
