Dumbwaiter Lift ALIE0013

A Dumbwaiter is a Lift System for hoisting material vertically within a building and has code-regulated width, depth and height size, and lifting capacity.Arguably, the most significant difference between dumbwaiters and elevators is that they serve completely different functions. Elevators primarily carry passengers while dumbwaiters solely carry items between floors while unattended.Etymology. From dumb (“unable to speak”) +‎ waiter, originally separate words and describing the portable table's inability to relate gossip after the meal. By the use of the term to describe small service elevators in American homes in the 1840s, it simply meant dumb as “mechanical”, “unable to speak at all”.