The mechanical dishwasher as a practical device emerged not from convenience but from annoyance, when a wealthy woman in downstate Shelbyville got tired of servants breaking her dishes after fancy ...

For thousands of years, human beings washed their dishes by hand, which was by no means the end of the world, but was certainly time-consuming and incredibly boring. To make life easier, Joel Houghton ...

Everyone wants a nice home-cooked dinner, but nobody wants to do the dishes after they are done eating. For centuries, people were left with little option but to clean dishes by hand. By the mid-19th ...

The genius was a man named Joel Houghton, who invented and patented a mechanical dishwasher in 1850. The tinkerer was a socialite and widow named Josephine Cochrane. Though she consulted Houghton’s ...

When do you think dishwashers were invented? Was it 30 years ago? Fifty years ago? The invention of mechanical dishwashers is actually older than you might think. The first mechanical dishwasher was ...

AS the dishwasher is becoming an automatic choice for many kitchens, it is interesting to note that the first mechanical dishwashing device dates to 1850 when Joel Houghton registered his new device ...