Lazy Susan

An early 18th-century British article in The Gentleman's Magazine describes how silent machines had replaced garrulous servants at some tables[6] and, by the 1750s, Christopher Smart was praising the "foreign" but discreet devices in verse.

[7] It is, however, almost certain that the devices under discussion were wheeled serving trays similar to those introduced by Thomas Jefferson to the United States from France,[8] where they were known as étagères.

[1] (Jefferson never had a lazy Susan at Monticello, but he did construct a box-shaped rotating book stand and, as part of serving "in the French style", employed a revolving dining-room door whose reverse side supported a number of shelves.[9]).

They employed the devices as part of their practice of communal living, making food easily and equally available to residents and visitors at meals.

She can be seen, but not heard, nor can she hear, she simply minds her business and carries out your orders in a jiffy.Laurie was a Scottish carpenter who made his "lazy Susan" to the personal specifications of a Hingham-area woman.

[18] Unusually, the 1916 American Cookery describes the device as a German invention:[19][10] There is a table arrangement used much in Germany, which has now found its way to America, though it is still by no means common.

The trapezoids fit about the center octagon, forming a perfect whole.By 1918, Century Magazine was already describing the lazy Susan as out of fashion,[20] but beginning in the 1950s its popularity soared once again after the redesign and reintroduction of the lazy Susan by George Hall, an engineer, soy sauce manufacturer, and partner in popular San Francisco-area Chinese restaurants (Johnny Kan's, Ming's of Palo Alto and John Ly's Dining), and the rotating tray became ubiquitous in Chinese restaurants and was used in homes around the globe.