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 which model of creation you find more persuasive: genius or tinkering.

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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 design and had help with her own model, it was argua

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