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Frustrated by her heirloom china getting chipped, socialite Josephine Cochrane set out to build a better solution herself. She declared that if nobody else was going to invent a dishwashing machine, she would do it. Working in a shed behind her home, she measured her dishes and designed wire compartments to hold them securely. Her invention used powerful jets of hot, soapy water from below, a pressure based system that earned a patent on December 28 1886. Her design later won top honors at the 1