The house in which I grew up (built in 1830's) had three kitchens, all in
a vertical row, with a dumb waiter to connect them. It was never used for
its intended purpose when we lived there, but my sisters and I had great
fun using it as a shortcut between floors (it was about 3"x3"x2" inside)
until our Dad caught us. He promptly screwed the doors shut. Our next
adventure was trying to figure out how to get into the cistern in the 5'
crawlspace under the house.
Charlie
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The things you learn from Google:
>
> The term seems to have been popularized in the United States
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA> in the 1840s, after the model of
> earlier "dumbwaiters" now known as serving trays
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serving_tray> and lazy Susans
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Susan>.[3]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbwaiter#cite_note-quim-3> The mechanical
> dumbwaiter was invented by George W. Cannon
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Cannon>, a New York
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York> inventor. 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.[4]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbwaiter#cite_note-JROC-4> Cannon later
> filed for the patent on the mechanical dumbwaiter (US Patent No. 361268) on
> February 17, 1887.[5]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbwaiter#cite_note-OF-5> Cannon
> reportedly
> generated a vast amount of royalties from the dumbwaiter patents until his
> death in 1897.[6] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbwaiter#cite_note-EB-6
> >
>
> TIna
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > At least we know the waiter didn't speak.
> >
> > On Wednesday, 11 May 2016, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering about the language of communication between the two
> > ladies
> > > as they rode the dumb waiter. English perhaps or some mixture of
> English
> > > and Farsi.
> > >
> > > jh
> > >
> > > On 2016-05-10 9:20 PM, ChrisB wrote:
> > >
> > >> That sounds delicious, Tina, but the dumb waiter doesn’t!
> > >>
> > >> Chris
> > >>
> > >> On 10 May 16, at 22:14, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> We ate dinner at a tiny, local restaurant in Abyaneh. The meal was
> > >>> Dizi, a
> > >>> lamb and chick-pea stew served in a stone crock. It was delicious
> but
> > >>> there was no kitchen in the one-room restaurant. The kitchen is
> > >>> underneath
> > >>> and food is brought up on a dumb-waiter. Unfortunately, when dinner
> > was
> > >>> over and I needed to use the toilet, I discovered it was in the
> kitchen
> > >>> and
> > >>> the only way there was on the dumb-waiter:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >
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> > >>>
> >
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