It can be made of many kinds of materials like glass, wood, or plastic.
Who is Susan? Who invented it? When was it Invented? There are no concrete answers for all these questions. Although there are speculations that Thomas Jefferson invented it for his complaining daughter, who claimed she never got enough food passed around, and Thomas Edison invented it for his phonograph. Interestingly, both of them had daughters named Susan.
The name Lazy Susan though, was first established by Vanity Fair magazine in 1917, in an advertisement for the product, and describing the price for it to be “a low wage for a good servant” and the Lazy Susan as “the cleverest waitress in the world”. As mentioned by that advertisement, Lazy Susan turntable would have been a suitable solution, where there was shortage of footmen or maids to help around the table while dining.
It is widely believed that Lazy Susans are in America, what Dumbwaiters are in Britain. That Lazy Susan is the twentieth century name for dumbwaiters that have been in use, as early as the 1720’s in England. Dumbwaiters were small elevators used to carry goods or food, from one floor to another.
Lazy Susan turntable harbors the food or condiments on top of them. People sitting around the table push the turntable, thus having access to whatever they need to be served, without actually passing them from one person to next. This also helps avoid any intrusion in conversation or the need to reach across the table, to fetch something.
Lazy Susan is used in kitchen cabinets rotating on its axis enabling access to all that is in the cabinet, saving storage space, and acting as a better organization solution. Lazy Susan turntable can be implemented to rotate TV/ monitor, and other tasks requiring manual rotation like model building, sculptures, etc. A Lazy Susan turntable usually has a bigger motor operated rotating platform.
