WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Science cards · Josephine Cochrane
Uncommon card · Science
Josephine Cochrane, an Uncommon card
Josephine Cochran was an American inventor who invented and manufactured the first successful hand-powered dishwasher.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 101
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 47,000
Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Josephine Cochrane quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Josephine Cochrane card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She won the prize for "best mechanical ______, durability and adaptation to its line of work" at the Fair.
Answer
construction. She won the prize for "best mechanical construction, durability and adaptation to its line of work" at the Fair. From the Josephine Cochrane article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Once her patent issued on December 28, ____, she founded Garis-Cochrane Manufacturing Company to manufacture her machines.
Answer
1880s. Once her patent issued on December 28, 1886, she founded Garis-Cochrane Manufacturing Company to manufacture her machines. From the Josephine Cochrane article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Desktop publishing. Desktop publishing 66 · Ha-Joon Chang 62 · Josephine Cochrane 59 · Scroll 56 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Once her patent issued on December 28, 1886, she founded Garis-Cochrane Manufacturing Company to manufacture her machines.
- Cochrane showed her new machine at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 where nine Garis-Cochran washers were installed in the restaurants and pavilions of the fair and was met with interest from restaurants and hotels, where hot water access was not an issue.
- She won the prize for "best mechanical construction, durability and adaptation to its line of work" at the Fair.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Josephine Cochrane article was read about 47,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Josephine Cochrane
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Josephine Cochrane in the power ranking, all domains together.
- DizzinessUncommon · Science · ATK 59 DEF 42
- Miklós RózsaUncommon · Arts · ATK 70 DEF 31
- Sidney HowardUncommon · Arts · ATK 64 DEF 37
- Adil Abdul-MahdiUncommon · History · ATK 64 DEF 37
- Ill BillUncommon · Arts · ATK 59 DEF 42
- Kick scooterUncommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 41
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Science cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Josephine Cochrane (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Post of Romania, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
