https://vid.freedif.org/videos/watch/2e44fe60-17be-49e0-a624-806b3b5f4c4e Take a look inside a dishwasher to explore how these machines work, and find out how to get the cleanest dishes from every use. -- 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. Lesson by Rachel Yang, directed by Aaron Augenblick, Augenblick Studios. Support Our Non-Profit MissionSupport us on Patreon: http://bit.ly/TEDEdPatreon Check out our merch: http://bit.ly/TEDEDShopConnect With UsSign up for our newsletter: http://bit.ly/TEDEdNewsletter Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/TEDEdFacebook Find us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/TEDEdTwitter Peep us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/TEDEdInstagramKeep LearningView full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/whats-happening-inside-a-dishwasher-rachel-yang Dig deeper with additional resources: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/whats-happening-inside-a-dishwasher-rachel-yang/digdeeper Animator's website: https://www.augenblickstudios.comThank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible! Olivia Fu, Kari Teffeau, Cindy Lai, Rajath Durgada Manjunath, Dan Nguyen, Chin Beng Tan, Tom Boman, Karen Warner, Iryna Panasiuk, Aaron Torres, Eric Braun, Sonja Worzewski, Michael Clement, Adam Berry, Ghaith Tarawneh, Nathan Milford, Tomas Beckett, Alice Ice, Eric Berman, Kurt Paolo Sevillano, Jennifer Heald, Megulo Abebe, isolwi, Kate Sem, Ujjwal Dasu, Angel Alberici, Minh Quan Dinh, Sylvain, Terran Gimpel, Talia Sari, Katie McDowell, Allen, Mahina Knuckles, Charmaine Hanson, Thawsitt, Jezabel, Abdullah Abdulaziz, Xiao Yu, Melissa Suarez, Brian A. Dunn, Francisco Amaya, Daisuke Goto, Matt Switzler, Peng, Tzu-Hsiang, Bethany Connor, Jeremy Shimanek, Mark Byers, Avinash Amarnath, Xuebicoco, and Rayo. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:52:50 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://vid.freedif.org https://vid.freedif.org/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://vid.freedif.org/videos/watch/2e44fe60-17be-49e0-a624-806b3b5f4c4e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://vid.freedif.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.