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A simple dumbwaiter is a movable frame in a shaft, dropped by a rope on a pulley, guided by rails; most dumbwaiters have a shaft, cart, and capacity smaller than those of passenger elevators, usually 45 to 450 kg (100 to 992 lbs.) [2] Before electric motors were added in the 1920s, dumbwaiters were controlled manually by ropes on pulleys.
According to lore, Thomas Jefferson invented the device, which was known as a "dumbwaiter", for his daughter Susan. Regardless of the origins of the name, by 1917 it was advertised in Vanity Fair [ 4 ] as "Ovington's $8.50 mahogany 'Revolving Server or Lazy Susan ' ", [ 5 ] but the term's use predates both the advertisement and, probably, the ...
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George W. Cannon was an American inventor from New York.He is best known for the invention of the mechanical dumbwaiter.Cannon first filed for the patent of a brake system (US Patent no. 260776) that could be used for a dumbwaiter on January 6, 1883. [1]
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Additionally, the kitchen island's counter-top can function as an overflow surface for serving buffet-style meals or sitting down to eat breakfast and snacks. In the 1980s, there was a backlash against industrial kitchen planning and cabinets with people installing a mix of work surfaces and free standing furniture, led by kitchen designer ...
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A dumbwaiter (lit. "silent waiter") is a small freight elevator. Dumbwaiter may also refer to: Lazy Susan, a small rotating table to serve food on a table; The Dumb Waiter, a 1957 one-act play by Harold Pinter; Dumb Waiters, a 1980 album by The Korgis "Dumb Waiters" (song), a 1981 song by the Psychedelic Furs