Labels:text | book OCR: A B W. COCKRAN PROFESSOR LA COUR fl. 1889 fl. 1891 E O NE OF THE THE FIRST first dish- PERSON to G washers was made build windmills H in 1880 by an specifically to I inventor named generate electricity K Benjamin Howe. However, it was was a Danish man named Professor 1. hand-powered and tiring to use. La Cour. In 1891, the Danish M W. Cockran, a housewife from Indiana, was the first person to goverment put La Cour in charge N of an experimental windmill station attach a motor to a dishwasher. It at Askov in Denmark. It was here PO took her ten years to complete her that he worked out the principles of R machine, which was finished in electricity generation by wind power S 1889 and demonstrated at Chicago's that led to today's wind turbine. La LFPB XY NELOU T World Fair in 1893. Cour worked at Askov until he died. W Y Dishwasher Wind Turbine Z M 1