According to the website of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the dishwasher was invented in 1886 by Josephine Cochran, whose grandfather invented the steam engine. I’m not surprised that a woman invented the dishwasher. When I first encountered that bit of history, I assumed Josephine must have…

Robbing a bank in the 1950s wasn’t as easy as it is today. Take the most famous bank robbery of all time dubbed by the FBI as…