"the 1950s that dishwashers became a common household item after new suburban homes were built with the plumbing required to handle the extra hot water. Josephine Cochrane Josephine Garis Cochran (later Cochrane) (March 8, 1839 in Ashtabula County, Ohio – August 14, 1913 (age 74) in Chicago, Illinois) was the inventor of the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher, which she constructed together with mechanic George Butters. Cochran was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006 for her invention of the dishwasher. Cochrane was the daughter of John Garis, a civil engineer, and Irene Fitch Garis. She"
"relieve tired housewives from the duty of washing dishes after a meal. Josephine died of a stroke or exhaustion in Chicago, Illinois, on August 14, 1913, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Shelbyville, Illinois. In 2006 she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Other attempts had been made to produce a commercially viable dishwasher. In 1850 Joel Houghton designed a hand-cranked dish soaker. In the 1860s, L. A. Alexander improved on the device with a geared mechanism that allowed the user to spin racked dishes through a tub of water. Neither of these devices was particularly"
"Fair in Chicago, Illinois under the name of Lavadora but was changed to Lavaplatos as another machine invented in 1858 already held that name. This machine is what everyone now knows as the washing machine. Cochrane's inspiration was her frustration at the damage to her good china that occurred when her servants handled it during cleaning. Europe's first domestic dishwasher with an electric motor was invented and manufactured by Miele in 1929. In the United Kingdom, William Howard Livens invented a small, non-electric dishwasher suitable for domestic use in 1924. It was the first dishwasher that incorporated most of the"
"Refrigerator car 1868 Paper bag 1868 Tape measure 1869 Vibrator 1869 American football 1869 Pipe wrench 1869 Clothes hanger 1870 Bee smoker 1870 Can opener (rotary) 1870 Sandblasting 1870 Feather duster 1871 Rowing machine 1872 Railway air brake 1872 Diner 1873 Earmuffs 1873 Silo 1873 Jeans Jeans are trousers generally made from denim. Jeans became popular among teenagers starting in the 1950s which remains as a distinct icon of American fashion. In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis co-invented and co-patented the idea of using copper rivets at the stress points of sturdy work pants. After one of Davis' customers"
"and efficient for domestic use. Gas stoves only became widespread on the European Continent and in the United States in the early 20th century. Once electric power was widely and economically available, electric stoves became a popular alternative to fuel-burning appliances. One of the earliest such devices was patented by Canadian inventor Thomas Ahearn in 1892. Ahearn and Warren Y. Soper were owners of Ottawa's Chaudiere Electric Light and Power Company. The electric stove was showcased at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, where an electrified model kitchen was shown. Unlike the gas stove, the electrical stove was slow to"
"The 1876 Philadelphia Exposition World's Fair displayed Potts's cold-handled sadiron and it was popular through the century. Her cold handle innovative clothes iron was also a favorite item at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. She married Joseph Potts and they had a family of six children. She died in New Jersey in 1922. She was awarded three United States patents. Potts had two patents for metal flat iron improvements in 1871–1872. In addition she held an invention for a medical device that her husband helped make. Potts termed herself as an ""inventress"" — a Victorian expression. Potts's innovation of a"
"effective. Cochrane designed the first model of her dishwasher in the shed behind her house in Shelbyville, Illinois in order to protect her china while it was being cleaned. George Butters was a mechanic who assisted her in the construction of the first dishwasher; he was also an employee at the first dishwasher factory. To build the machine, she first measured the dishes and built wire compartments, each specially designed to fit either plates, cups, or saucers. The compartments were placed inside a wheel that lay flat inside a copper boiler. A motor turned the wheel while hot soapy water"
"to everyday domesticated household needs early on in the 19th century. Her invention was the pastry fork. Mangin got the patent for the pastry fork on March 1, 1892, in Queens, New York. The pastry fork is an attachment that electrically mixes without the need for arm work. This tool had many uses, including beating eggs, thickening foods, making drawn butter, mashing potatoes, making salad dressings, and most importantly, kneading pastry dough. This improved the lives of many women, and eventually lead to more electric mixing inventions that are used to this day. Kneading pastry dough by hand is a"
"On September 20, 1859, George B. Simpson was awarded US patent #25532 for an 'electro-heater' surface heated by a platinum-wire coil powered by batteries. In his words, useful to ""warm rooms, boil water, cook victuals..."". Canadian inventor Thomas Ahearn filed patent number no. 39916 in 1892 for an ""Electric Oven,"" a device he probably employed in preparing a meal for an Ottawa hotel that year. Ahearn and Warren Y. Soper were owners of Ottawa's Chaudiere Electric Light and Power Company. The electric stove was showcased at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, where an electrified model kitchen was shown. Unlike"
"Chimney crane Chimney cranes, also known as fireplace cranes and pot cranes, are a feature of the homes of the American Colonial period and 18/19th century of Western Europe. Although the chimney crane may be thought by some to be a Yankee invention, it was common in both British and American houses of the era. The purpose of the crane is to allow a cooking pot to be swung away from the fire, preventing burn injuries to the cook as well as regulating temperature of the pot. The chimney crane is an important step in open hearth cooking as it"
"self-contained electric or gas powered appliances are a uniquely American innovation that emerged in the twentieth century. The development of these appliances is tied to the disappearance of full-time domestic servants and the desire to reduce the time-consuming activities in pursuit of more recreational time. In the early 1900s, electric and gas appliances included washing machines, water heaters, refrigerators and sewing machines. The invention of Earl Richardson's small electric clothes iron in 1903 gave a small initial boost to the home appliance industry. In the Post–World War II economic expansion, the domestic use of dishwashers, and clothes dryers were part"
"iron stoves replaced those made of masonry and their size shrank to allow them to be incorporated into the domestic kitchen. By the 1850s, the modern kitchen, equipped with a cooking range, was a fixture of middle-class homes. In 1850 Mary Evard invented the Reliance Cook Stove, which was divided in two with one half for dry baking and the other half for moist. Patents issued to Mary Evard are US76315 and US76314 on April 7, 1868. She demonstrated this stove with her husband at the St. Louis World's Fair. In 1867 Elizabeth Hawks of New York invented and received"
"by Universal Housewares, Inc./Universal Trading, Inc., who still market ""Universal"" meat grinders and coffee mills. https://nbindustrial.org/collection/landers/ Landers, Frary & Clark Landers, Frary & Clark was a housewares company based in New Britain, Connecticut. It operated from 1865 until its assets were sold to the General Electric company in 1965. They manufactured a wide variety of products over the years, including stainless steel bull-nose rings and electric ranges, kitchen scales and vacuum bottles, window hardware and ice skates, mouse traps and percolators, can openers, corkscrews, cutlery, straight razors, aluminum cookware, and thousands of other products. Many of these items were marketed"
"filed U.S. patent #1,091,529 on February 24, 1910 and was issued to him on March 31, 1914. 1905 Ice pop 1906 Typesetting 1906 Flushometer 1906 Audion tube 1907 Curtain rod 1907 Electrostatic precipitator 1907 Paper towel 1908 Candy apple Candy apples, also known as toffee apples outside of North America, are whole apples covered in a hard sugar candy coating. While the topping varies from place to place, they are almost always served with a wooden stick of sorts in the middle making them easier to eat. Toffee apples are a common treat at autumn festivals in Western culture in"
"Today, the Hoosier cabinet is a much sought-after domestic icon and widely reproduced. Chapters of earlier books, particularly written during the era of domestic science and home economics in the latter half of the 19th century, featured how to furnish, keep, and clean a pantry. Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, in their seminal ""The American Woman's Home"" (1869), advocated the elimination of the pantry by installing pantry shelving and cabinetry in the kitchen. This idea did not take hold in American households until a century later, by which time the pantry had become a floor-to-ceiling cabinet in the"
"century, they were popular at many high-profile bathing resorts across Europe and in America. By 1870, a clockwork-driven vibrator was available for physicians. In 1873, the first electromechanical vibrator was used at an asylum in France for the treatment of hysteria. While physicians of the period acknowledged that the disorder stemmed from sexual dissatisfaction, they seemed unaware of or unwilling to admit the sexual purposes of the devices used to treat it. In fact, the introduction of the speculum was far more controversial than that of the vibrator. By the turn of the 20th century, the spread of home electricity"
"to clean. They also made several improvements to the filtering mechanism. Their improved design of plated metals, styled by industrial designer Alfonso Iannelli, became the famous Sunbeam ""Coffeemaster"" line of automated vacuum coffee makers (Models C-20, C-30, C40, and C-50). The Coffeemaster vacuum brewer was sold in large numbers in the United States during the years immediately following World War I. Percolators began to be developed from the mid-nineteenth century. In the United States, James H. Mason of Massachusetts patented an early percolator design in 1865. An Illinois farmer named Hanson Goodrich is generally credited with patenting the modern percolator."
"further into conformity with international patent law. The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792). From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below. 1749 Lightning rod 1752 Flexible urinary catheter 1761 Armonica 1776 Swivel chair 1782 Flatboat 1784 Bifocals 1785 Artificial diffraction grating 1787 Automatic flour mill 1792 Cracker 1793 Cotton gin 1795 Wheel cypher 1796 Rumford fireplace 1796 Cupcake"
"(mass-produced and rolled) 1857 Pink lemonade 1857 Brown Truss 1858 screw top Pepper shaker 1858 Mason jar 1858 Pencil eraser 1858 Ironing board 1858 Twine knotter 1858 Dustpan 1859 Electric stove 1859 Escalator 1860 Vacuum cleaner 1860 Repeating rifle (lever action) 1861 Jelly bean 1861 Twist drill 1861 Kinematoscope 1861 Postcard 1861 Machine gun (hand-cranked) 1863 Breakfast cereal 1863 Ratchet wrench 1863 Quad skates 1863 Double-barreled cannon 1864 Spar torpedo 1865 Cowboy hat 1865 Rotary printing press (web) 1866 Urinal (restroom version) 1866 Chuckwagon 1867 Motorcycle (steam-powered) 1867 Paper clip 1867 Barbed wire 1867 Ticker tape 1867 Water-tube boiler 1867"
"were sold as standalone or portable devices, but with the development of the wall-to-wall countertop and standardized height cabinets, dishwashers began to be marketed with standardized sizes and shapes, integrated underneath the kitchen countertop as a modular unit with other kitchen appliances. By the 1970s, dishwashers had become commonplace in domestic residences in North America and Western Europe. By 2012, over 75 percent of homes in the United States and Germany had dishwashers. In the late 1990s, manufactures began offering various new energy conservation features in dishwashers. One feature was use of ""soil sensors"", which was a computerized tool in"
"Harriet Tracy Harriet Ruth Brisbane Tracy (December 6, 1834 – May 30, 1918) was an American inventor who patented at least 27 inventions between 1868 and 1915, including six elevator and 17 sewing machine patents. Her first patent was for a crib attachment for bedsteads. Her patented elevator was put into everyday use at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Born Harriet Ruth Brisbane in Charleston, South Carolina to William Brisbane and Julia Hall Lowndes, she moved to New England before the Civil War with her family. In 1860 she married Cadwallader Colden Tracy, a baseball player who was"
"and retailers. The new venture was incorporated a year later as Grohe America, Inc. and moved into a small warehouse-office complex. In order to keep pace with its rapid growth, the company regularly upsized its premises: a section of a larger warehouse facility in 1978, a whole warehouse in Wood Dale in 1986, and finally settled into today’s custom-built 90,000 square-foot facility in Bloomingdale, Illinois, in 1993. Sales figures doubled year after year as Grohe introduced a series of products such as the ""Ladylux"" of 1983 – the first pull-out spray kitchen faucet, including detachable hand-spray* and snap-on accessories* (also"
"distribution pipes into homes, and built sewers to deal with the waste water. Gas pipes were laid; gas was used first for lighting purposes, but once the network had grown sufficiently, it also became available for heating and cooking on gas stoves. At the turn of the 20th century, electricity had been mastered well enough to become a commercially viable alternative to gas and slowly started replacing the latter. But like the gas stove, the electric stove had a slow start. The first electrical stove had been presented in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, but it was"
"were used for decoration or as planters, being air tight. Latrobe Stove The Latrobe Stove, also known as a ""Baltimore Heater"", was a coal-fired parlor heater made of cast iron and fitted into fireplaces as an insert. They were patented in 1846 and were very popular by the 1870s. The squat device was invented by John Hazelhurst Boneval Latrobe (1803–1891). He was the son of noted engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe II. Latrobe became a patent lawyer and was shy about taking credit for his stoves which succeeded Benjamin Franklin's much larger Franklin stove. In 1980 there were a"
"use in the United States, and still others in Europe. In Italy, the""""scavezzatrice"""" faded in the 1950s because of monopolisation from fossil fuel, paper interests, synthetic materials and from other less profitable crops. Many types of decorticators have been developed since 1890. In 1919, George Schlichten received a U.S. patent on his improvements of the decorticator for treating fiber bearing plants. Schlichten failed to find investors for production of his decorticator and died in 1923, a broken man. Even though many suppliers claim the ""full-automatic"" type for their decorticating units, the actual operation identifies the ""semi-automatic"" features by several stops"
"found that the most common way that users were injured by glassware was via mechanical breakage, being hit or dropped, and that ""the change to soda lime represents a greater net safety benefit."" Corelle Brands Corelle Brands, LLC is an American kitchenware products maker and distributor based in Rosemont, Illinois. The company began as the Corning Consumer Products Company, a division of glassmaker Corning, and was also known as ""World Kitchen"" from 2000 until 2018. The company began as an unincorporated consumer products division of Corning, Inc. in 1915 with the invention of heat-resistant glass bakeware sold under the Pyrex"
"machines. The rollers were typically made of wood, or sometimes rubber. The Steel Roll Mangle Co. of 108 Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois offered a gas heated home mangle for pressing linens in 1902. In the 1930s electric mangles were developed and are still a feature of many laundry rooms. They consist of a rotating padded drum which revolves against a heating element which can be stationary, or can also be a rotating drum. Laundry is fed into the turning mangle and emerges flat and pressed on the other side. This process takes much less time than ironing with the usual"
"her design manufactured, then filed a patent (US 743,801) on June 18, 1903 that was issued to her by the US Patent Office on November 10, 1903. A similar device is recorded 3 months prior to Anderson's patent, with Robert A Douglass filing a patent for a ""locomotive-cab-window cleaner"" on 12 March 1903. Irish born inventor James Henry Apjohn (1845–1914) patented an ""Apparatus for Cleaning Carriage, Motor Car and other Windows"" which was stated to use either brushes or wipers and could be either motor driven or hand driven. The brushes or wipers were intended to clean either both up"
"in small retail quantities. The forerunner of the machine, the ""apparatus for aerating liquids"", was created in 1903 by Guy Hugh Gilbey of the London gin distillers, W & A Gilbey Ltd., and was sold to the upper classes (including the royal household). Flavoured concentrates such as cherry ciderette and sarsaparilla, were introduced in the 1920s, along with commercial carbonation machines, and the first machine for home carbonation of drinks was produced in 1955. The SodaStream was originally sold in the UK, and later spread to other countries, including Australia, New Zealand, and Germany. SodaStream machines were popular during the"
"during World War II. In 2002 the Swiss Geberit AG acquired Chicago Faucet. Currently the Chicago Faucet Company has its headquarters in Des Plaines, Illinois, and employs over 500 people in Des Plaines, Milwaukee, Elyria, Ohio, Michigan City, Indiana, and Huntsville, Alabama. Chicago Faucet has sales in the neighborhood of $70 million a year. Chicago Faucet The Chicago Faucet Company, founded on the near-west side of Chicago, Illinois, has been producing faucets and other plumbing fixtures since 1901. The company founder, Albert C. Brown, invented the Quaturn Cartridge in 1913 that worked with the flow of water to make it"
"design was the ""Pond Fort boot"", a close-fitting, knee-high boot that she patented in both the United States and Canada in 1880. Later clothing designs included a perforated felt chest protector, a sleeve holder, a waterproof leg protector, a detachable brassiere frame, and a corset shield. One of her early inventions was the ""Dart"" needle, first patented in 1884. She initially manufactured the Dart needle herself, making the first 60,000 on her own after the man she hired for the job absconded. She later had the needle manufactured by an outside firm. Other practical objects for the home included a"
"households had a television, 72% a vacuum cleaner, and 30% a refrigerator. John Burnett notes that ownership had spread down the social scale so that the gap between consumption by professional and manual workers had considerably narrowed. The provision of household amenities steadily improved in the late decades of the century. From 1971 to 1983, households having the sole use of a fixed bath or shower rose from 88% to 97%, and those with an internal WC from 87% to 97%. In addition, the number of households with central heating almost doubled during that same period, from 34% to 64%."
"Cuisinart Cuisinart is an American home appliance brand owned by Conair Corporation. The company was started in 1971 by Carl Sontheimer to bring an electric food processor to the US market. The ""Food Processor"" was the first model, introduced at a food show in Chicago in 1973. Cuisinart became the property of Conair Corporation in 1989. Cuisinart was founded in 1971 by Carl Sontheimer, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was inspired by his love of French food. This led to the creation of Cuisinart and its main product, the food processor. Cuisinart introduced its brand in January"