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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.
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Jefferson never had a lazy Susan at Monticello, but he did construct a box-shaped rotating book stand and, as part of serving "in the French style", employed a revolving dining-room door whose reverse side supported a number of shelves. [9]). By the 1840s, Americans were applying the term to small lifts carrying food between floors as well. [1]
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. (AP) - An autopsy finds that a waitress died of severe head injuries after getting her head caught in a dumbwaiter at a Wisconsin restaurant last week, police said Tuesday.
Amid growing anxieties surrounding reported drone sightings, the FBI has issued a warning against a new trend of pointing lasers at aircrafts.
Since rope is obvious, critical element, dumbwaiters could be quite ancient (e.g., Roman?) – and certainly show up in French books as mont-plats two centuries earliere, e.g., Les Oeuvres Morales et meslees de Plutarque (1572, page 113) – and here is a book in German that old, too: The XVIth Century: A Large Collection of Valuable Books ...
(The Center Square) – Democrats at the Wisconsin Capitol continue to look to spend the state’s $4 billion budget surplus on the state’s schools. Senate Minority Leader Diane Hesselbein ...