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Should you rinse your dishes before placing them in the dishwasher? - Rachel Yang

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After years of hosting lavish dinner parties and watching her dishware get chipped during handwashing, American socialite Josephine Cochrane was convinced the world needed a better way to clean dishes. So, she built a prototype for a dishwashing contraption. And the design would become the model for our modern dishwashers. So, how do they work? Rachel Yang takes a look inside the machine.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Rachel Yang
Director
Aaron Augenblick, Augenblick Studios
Narrator
Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Sound Designer
Aaron Augenblick
Director of Production
Gerta Xhelo
Produced by
Sazia Afrin
Editorial Director
Alex Rosenthal
Editorial Producer
Shannon Odell
Fact-Checker
Charles Wallace

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