Dr. Steven Novella

But then, this is from the Wikipedia article, also gives another reference that says, and she wanted to relieve housewives of the drudgery of washing dishes.

Okay.

So give her credit for that as well.

But, yeah, but she, you know, she was a wealthy Chicago.

She herself was not hand washing dishes.

And that was probably why she also could afford to, you know, she had the money to launch this herself.

Yeah, but she did it.

I mean, she invented a working dishwasher and it worked.

And it, you know, basically has continuity to modern day Whirlpool dishwashers.

It's interesting.

That's very cool.

All right, we'll go backwards.

An English inventor, Jonas Hanway, invented the modern umbrella for use as a waterproof rain guard in the 1750s.

Kara, Bob and Jay, you think this one is the fiction.

Evan, you think this one is science.

So interesting that you guys think, oh, yeah, umbrellas were around for a long time.

But again, I said modern umbrella.

Well, that's a good question.

What defines the modern umbrella versus older versions of it?

And waterproof.