Josephine Cochrane
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Josephine Cochran was an American inventor who invented and manufactured the first successful hand-powered dishwasher.
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Valparaiso, Indiana
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Valparaiso, colloquially Valpo, is a city in and the county seat of Porter County, Indiana, United States. The population was 34,151 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Josephine Cochrane
…on December 28, 1886, for her invention of the dishwasher. She was born Josephine Garis in Ashtabula County, Ohio, on March 8, 1839, and raised in Valparaiso, Indiana. She was the daughter of John Garis, a civil engineer, and Irene Fitch Garis, and was the granddaughter of an innovator. After moving to her sister's…
Lincolnway in downtown Valparaiso
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