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And yet, I bet women were pretty happy when men created the dishwasher.

• nielsole 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Cochrane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Cochrane
  • dudul 4y ago
    That's an evolution of what was invented by Joel Houghton.
    • Chris2048 4y ago
      Not sure if it was directly inspired by Houghton's, but it was the first to be commercially successful. However it seems those early dishwashers where pretty different to modern ones, least of all not being automatic: https://www.homestratosphere.com/dishwasher-history/ https://www.homestratosphere.com/dishwasher-history/
    • t-writescode 4y ago
      To be clear, your response to someone calling you out was to ... double-down on your sexism by being pedantic?
    • capableweb 4y ago
      In case you weren't aware: > The first mechanical dishwashing device was registered for a patent in 1850 in the United States by Joel Houghton > The device was both slow and unreliable. > Another patent was granted to L.A. Alexander in 1865 > Neither device was practical or widely accepted. And finally > The most successful of the hand-powered dishwashers was invented in 1886 by Josephine Cochrane together with mechanic George Butters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher#History) So yeah, all three invented the dishwasher it seems, but thanks to Josephine Cochrane (and Butters), we actually have a working and reliable dishwasher, something Joel Houghton was unable to build. You're all right, in your own way.
• paavope 4y ago
  One can be happy that something exists while at the same time lamenting that the design isn’t ideal (Edit: though incidentally, it turns out that the inventor of the dishwasher — or at least one of the earliest working designs — was a woman, as the sibling post pointed out; didn’t know that)
  • dudul 4y ago
    And one can criticize a design without making generalized stereotyped assumptions about the gender of the designer.