In 1886, after many months designing it in the shed behind her house, industrious housewife Josephine Cochran invented what device, forever making household cleaning easier?

Once her patent issued in December, 1886, she founded the Garis-Cochrane Manufacturing Company to crank out her machines. She got real interest at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 where nine of her machines were installed in the restaurants and pavilions of the fair.

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