Fun article and a good reminder that the desires of human beings may not have changed as much as we think. The dishwasher, as we know it, was not invented by s

Fun article and a good reminder that the desires of human beings may not have changed as much as we think. The dishwasher, as we know it, was not invented by someone who was tired of doing dishes. It was invented 130 years ago by a wealthy woman who didn't like the way her servants handled her good China. She tried washing the dishes herself but found it too much to bear. She wasn't even the one who was washing the dishes, she just knew that her servants weren't good enough at the task described: "Assess where things are, you have to identify everything, you have to remember where it goes, you have to move it in an appropriate way and you have to do all this in some manner of real time."