The dishwasher was made in America, though there is some dispute over who did it. That’s because there are two rival American inventors of the dishwasher, with dueling patents. Credit comes down to ...

Popular Science has an excellent article on how Josephine Cochrane transformed how dishes are cleaned by inventing an automated dish washing machine and obtaining a patent in 1886. Dishwashers had ...

Dishwashers around the world The American dishwasher experience differs in degree from the rest of the world. Somewhere between 70% and 80% of U.S. households own a dishwasher, even if many of them do ...