By: Laura Meyers
Did you know that some of the most liberating technologies for women in history were created by male entrepreneurs? Those dirty misogynists. Men probably only invented such things for their own personal gain. For example, the refrigerator. One day they decided, hey, you know what, woman? I want my sandwiches cold.
1. Dishwasher
The first dishwashing machine was created in the 1880’s by a woman named Josephine Cochran, an Illinois native. Cochran was motivation to invent such a machine because she was tired of her good china dishes being broken when hand-washed, and she wanted to help liberate tired housewives from the same drudgery.
So, she went out to the shed in her backyard, and with the help of a young mechanic and created one of the first liberating technologies for women. The United States Patent and Trademark Office said she measured the dishes first, then made wire compartments, each designed to fit plates, cups or saucers. “The compartments were placed inside a wheel that lay flat within a copper boiler. A motor turned the wheel while hot, soapy water squirted from the bottom of the boiler and rained down on the dishes,” one report reads.
Friends and neighbors were excited about the invention. Cochran applied for a patent and it was approved in 1886. One woman’s testimonial suggests that Cochran’s new machine was “indispensable.”
“Dear Mrs. Cochran, Please accept my congratulations on the success of that wonderful piece of mechanism, the ‘Dish Washer.’ Having Seen it work, I can testify that it will do all work required, as advertised, and am assured that it will be as indispensable to our homes as the sewing machine. No one who is in need of such an article and understands the worth and value of such a machine would think of doing without it. Respectfully, Mrs. L.S. Baldwin, Windsor, ill., Feb. 5, 1889.”
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