What invention by Josephine Cochran in 1896, was only used in hotels and boarding houses until the 1950's when it gained popularity in the home?
Josephine Cochrane Josephine Cochrane Josephine Garis Cochran (later Cochrane) (March 8, 1839 in Ashtabula County, Ohio – August 14, 1913 (age 74) in Chicago, Illinois) was the inventor of the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher, which she constructed together with mechanic George Butters. Cochran was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006 for her invention of the dishwasher. Cochrane was the daughter of John Garis, a civil engineer, and Irene Fitch Garis. She had one sister, Irene Garis Ransom. Her maternal grandfather John Fitch was an inventor who was awarded a steamboat patent. She was raised in Valparaiso,
Hotels in Istanbul mainly consisting of special licence hotels, motels, camping grounds, boarding houses, aparts, and boutique hotels. At the end of 2010, according to the data of the Association of the Touristic Hotels and Investors (TUROB) of the Republic of Turkey, 766 accommodation establishments of different categories in Istanbul (licensed by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture of Turkey and/or the municipality of Istanbul) had the total of 46,652 rooms and 93,299 beds. That capacity alone was sufficient to accommodate the annual volume of 10 million tourists. At the same time, another 51 new hotels (of which 25 were 5-star hotels) were