INVENTOR

Josephine Cochrane

1839 - 1913

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Josephine Cochran (later Cochrane; née Garis; March 8, 1839 – August 3, 1913) was an American inventor who invented the first successful hand-powered dishwasher, which she designed and then constructed with the assistance of mechanic George Butters, who became one of her first employees. Once her patent issued on 28 December 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. She won the prize for "best mechanical construction, durability and adaptation to its line of work" at the Fair. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josephine Cochrane has received more than 494,496 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Josephine Cochrane is the 71st most popular inventor (down from 66th in 2019), the 741st most popular biography from United States (down from 671st in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Inventor.

Josephine Cochrane is most famous for inventing the dishwasher. She invented the dishwasher because she was tired of washing dishes by hand.

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  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Josephine Cochrane ranks 71 out of 426. Before her are John Browning, Étienne Lenoir, John Deere, Jacques Piccard, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, and Oleg Antonov. After her are Les Paul, George Eastman, Claude Chappe, Charles K. Kao, Kōnosuke Matsushita, and Jacques de Vaucanson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Josephine Cochrane ranks 11. Before her are Alfred Sisley, Charles Sanders Peirce, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria. After her are Nikolay Przhevalsky, Emil Škoda, August Kundt, Machado de Assis, Princess Cecilie of Baden, and Nikolay Bobrikov. Among people deceased in 1913, Josephine Cochrane ranks 13. Before her are Lesya Ukrainka, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Menelik II, Sophia of Nassau, Tobias Asser, and August Bebel. After her are Harriet Tubman, Philip Sclater, Francisco I. Madero, Ármin Vámbéry, Katsura Tarō, and Lewis A. Swift.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Josephine Cochrane ranks 741 out of 20,380. Before her are Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Truman Capote (1924), Walter Matthau (1920), Alan Arkin (1934), and Douglas Osheroff (1945). After her are Ron Perlman (1950), John Carpenter (1948), Alan Shepard (1923), Robert Mitchum (1917), Burt Reynolds (1936), and James Caan (1940).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Josephine Cochrane ranks 19. Before her are William G. Morgan (1870), Douglas Engelbart (1925), Charles Goodyear (1800), Isaac Singer (1811), John Browning (1855), and John Deere (1804). After her are Les Paul (1915), George Eastman (1854), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Elisha Otis (1811), Leo Fender (1909), and Robert Noyce (1927).

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