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A dumbwaiter also known as a lazy waiter (Speiseaufzug) in the oldest restaurant in Munich, the Hundskugel, with the hand-pulled cart in the "UP" position and only the rope visible. A dumbwaiter is a small freight elevator or lift intended to carry food. Dumbwaiters found within modern structures, including both commercial, public and private ...
A mid-1970s science fiction novel by David Gerrold, When H.A.R.L.I.E. was One, includes a description of a fictional computer program named VIRUS that worked just like a virus (and was countered by a program named ANTIBODY). The term "computer virus" also appears in the comic book "Uncanny X-Men" No. 158, published in 1982. A computer virus's ...
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 ...
What is a dumbwaiter, and are they still being used today? All about the mysterious appliance mentioned in the first episode of Netflix's show 'The Watcher.'
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
In a group of two or more elevators, the call buttons may be linked to a central dispatch computer, such that they illuminate and cancel together. This is done to ensure that only one car is called at one time. Key switches may be installed on the ground floor so that the elevator can be remotely switched on or off from the outside.
CA—Computer Accountancy; CAD—Computer-Aided Design; CAE—Computer-Aided Engineering; CAID—Computer-Aided Industrial Design; CAI—Computer-Aided Instruction; CAM—Computer-Aided Manufacturing; CAP—Consistency Availability Partition tolerance (theorem) CAPTCHA—Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
A throbber animation like that seen on many websites when a blocking action is being performed in the background. A throbber, also known as a loading icon, is an animated graphical control element used to show that a computer program is performing an action in the background (such as downloading content, conducting intensive calculations or communicating with an external device).