"Meet Josephine Garis Cochrane: entrepreneur, innovator, girlboss. Washing dishes is a pain, it leaves Josephine's cups cracked, her dishes dinged, and her chowder bowls chipped. She'd rather be picking flowers, frosting cakes, or playing piano than dealing with cracked crockery. What to do about a chore that's 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 flops until she has a government patent for her invention, and there are whirring, whizzing, bubbling dishwashers making a splash across America."--Provided by publisher.
