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The Sleepiest Epidemic, Really Deep Holes, Goddess of Dirty Dishes

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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Cochran's Crescent Washing Machine Company

In 1898, Josephine Cochran opens her first factory with George Butters as her manager. She had orders rolling in throughout Illinois and nearby states places like hospitals and colleges were really interested because they had to have strict sanitization standards. Her largest dishwasher could wash and dry 240 dishes in two minutes. And so now, yeah, so we love we love a friendship story as well.

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