Key :

Write T (true) or F (false) :

1 - F ( rich)

2 - T

3 - T

4 - T

5 - F ( with her friend's help)

6 - F ( they want)

7 - T

8 - F ( dishwashers)

Answer the questions:

1 - because she is rich and she has some servants

2 - because her servants always broke her lovely dishes

3 - in 1886

4 - her friend

5 - Kitchen-Aid

6 - in 1913

Josephine Cochrane is a very rich woman. She has many beautiful things.

She never washes dishes or does housework . She has servants to do the work for her.

Mrs. Cochrane has a very good life but she isn't happy! Why ?

Because her servants always break her lovely dishes . One day another dish breaks.

Mrs. Cochrane get angry. She decides to do something. She decides to make a machine that washes dishes.

Mrs. Cochrane doesn't know anything about machine. So she asks her friend for help. Finally she

makes a dishwasher . It has places for plates, saucers and cups . It's a lot like a dishwasher today. She makes the machine and shows it to her friends. Her friends think the machine is amazing. They tell other friends. Soon many people know about Mrs. Cochrane's machine. Restaurants and hotels want to have a machine.

It's 1886. Mrs. Cochrane starts a company to make dishwashers.

Later, her company makes the first dishwashers for the home. She names her dishwasher Kitchen-Aid. Today, half the homes in the USA have dishwashers. Many people still buy Kitchen-Aid dishwashers.

Everyone can thank Mrs. Cochrane for saving their nice dishes.

Josephine Cochrane

Born : 8th March 1839 - Ashtabula County, Ohio (USA)

Died : 3rd August 1913

In 1886 she made the first practical mechanical dishwasher.

Josephine Cochrane' s

first dishwasher

Write T (true) or F (false) :

__ 1. Mrs. Cochrane is a very poor woman.

__ 2.She never washes dishes.

__ 3.Her servants always drop the dishes and

break them.

__ 4. Mrs. Cochrane decides to make a special

Machine that washes dishes.

__ 5.She makes it herself.

__ 6.Restaurants and hotels don't want to have

this machine.

__ 7.In 1886 Mrs. Cochrane starts her own

company.

__ 8. The people who work there make plates,

saucers and cups .

Answer the questions :

1.Why does Mrs. Cochrane never wash dishes or do housework ?

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2.Why did she decide to make a machine that washes dishes ?

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3. When did she make the first dishwasher ? ____________________

4. Who helped her to make it ? ______________________________

5. How did she call her first home dishwasher ?__________________

6. When did she die ? _____________________________________

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