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:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000NnQhtbxhC6w
> >>> <
> >>>
> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000NnQhtbxhC6w
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>
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