Description
Celebrate the inventor of the dishwasher in this inspiring STEM/STEAM picture book biography about Josephine Garis Cochrane, the brains behind one of the worlds most-used kitchen appliances.
Many Americans have a dishwasher in their kitchen. But who invented it?
Meet Josephine Garis Cochrane: entrepreneur, innovator, girlboss. Washing dishes is a painit leaves Josephines cups cracked, her dishes dinged, and her chowder bowls chipped. Shed rather be picking flowers, frosting cakes, or playing piano than dealing with cracked crockery. What to do about a chore thats icky, destructive, and time-consuming? Josephine tackles this task the modern way: she makes a machine to do it for her! She tinkers and tests, and perseveres through fizzles and flopsuntil she has a government patent for her invention, and there are whirring, whizzing, bubbling dishwashers making a splash across America.
This charming tale includes an authors note, a list of notable women inventors, a timeline of fascinating inventions, and a list of sources.
Author: Kate Hannigan
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
Published: 03/14/2023
Pages: 40
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.58w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9781635926217
Language: English
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