dumbwaiter

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According to OSHA, the companies’ employees and subcontractors were exposed to “pinch-point hazards” associated with the dumbwaiter and didn’t ensure employees and contractors were qualified to operate the device.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023

Occasionally, your group will be divided, communicating only by a makeshift dumbwaiter in the byzantine rooms that create the sensation of being in a maze-like mansion.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

It's a dumbwaiter that was designed to carry these heavy glass plates.

From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023

And yet when I finally, as an adult, had a dumbwaiter shaft in my old, rented house, I found it scary, drafty.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2022

Another innovation was the dumbwaiter, which moved hot food and bottles of wine from the belowground kitchens and storerooms—called “dependencies”—up to the first floor.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis