Sir Charlie Chaplin in a dumbwaiter.
Dumbwaiters, an incredible help and you can still get them installed in home today.I have played in them as a child, like Charlie Chaplin in the 1st picture.
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson is said to have invented the dumbwaiter. There are 2 forms of a dumbwaiter, one is a table with tiers. The other is the very small elevator type built into a homes wall that has a vertical shaft, the dumbwaiter is raised and lowered ( manually) by ropes and pulleys.
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson is said to have invented the dumbwaiter. There are 2 forms of a dumbwaiter, one is a table with tiers. The other is the very small elevator type built into a homes wall that has a vertical shaft, the dumbwaiter is raised and lowered ( manually) by ropes and pulleys. After 1920, motors were added.
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
This is a wine dumbwaiter that was used to transport his wine from the cellar to the dining room at Thomas Jefferson's 'Monticello'.
More dumbwaiters.
This is a picture from ' The Octagon House'. ( see arrow)
I don't understand why with all these 'Mc Mansions' that have been built do not have dumbwaiters. They are certainly available.
Especially in homes with a long walk to the laundry room . If your laundry room is off your kitchen. this would be great, you could use it for food, laundry .........anything.
"When he had any persons dining with him, with whom he wished to enjoy a free and unrestricted flow of conversation, the number of persons at table never exceed four, and by each individual was placed a dumb-waiter, containing everything necessary for the progress of the dinner from beginning to end, so as to make the attendance of servants entirely unnecessary, believing as he did, that much of the domestic and even public discord was produced by the mutilated and misconstructed repetition of free conversation at dinner tables, by these mute but not inattentive listeners. "
More dumbwaiters.
This is a picture from ' The Octagon House'. ( see arrow)I don't understand why with all these 'Mc Mansions' that have been built do not have dumbwaiters. They are certainly available.
Especially in homes with a long walk to the laundry room . If your laundry room is off your kitchen. this would be great, you could use it for food, laundry .........anything.Heck, you could just ride in it . Just think of the possibilities !!!
Would you like your very own dumbwaiter ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbwaiter_(elevator)
http://my.execpc.com/~drer/octagon.htm
http://www.verticalvalet.com/
http://www.abbeyaccess.com/index.php?n=15&id=28
http://www.offthebeatenstage.com/AtmosphereActors.htm
Renee Finberg 'TELLS ALL' in her BLOG.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbwaiter_(elevator)
http://my.execpc.com/~drer/octagon.htm
http://www.verticalvalet.com/
http://www.abbeyaccess.com/index.php?n=15&id=28
http://www.offthebeatenstage.com/AtmosphereActors.htm
Renee Finberg 'TELLS ALL' in her BLOG.....
