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Ep368 - Roma Agrawal | Nuts and Bolts: Small Inventions That Changed the World

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The Story of Josephine Cochran

Josephine Cochran was the daughter and granddaughter of engineers. She had a problem that she got frustrated with which is that washing dishes took too long. And so she started the design of the dishwasher from the inside out. The patent system is a really fascinating one because there are lots of stories of people who have a patent for something but that doesn't mean they actually invented the thing first. So yeah it's definitely very very important for me to bring out the stories of the people that normally would not get recognition in my book.

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