Lazy Susan’s origins can be traced back to Wang Zhen, a Chinese official who helped pioneer moveable type, in the 700-year-old Book of Agriculture, which has the earliest known description of a ...

When I hear the words “lazy Susan,” I usually think of afternoon tea spreads at my grandmother’s house, or of the Lucite lazy Susans in my apartment’s pull-out cabinets.

Wang's solution was to make the table move, so the typesetter didn't have to. In this sense, it worked very much like a tabletop Lazy Susan. 1313 woodcut of movable type table Wang Book of Agriculture ...

If you can swing it, why not opt for a new dining table with a built-in lazy Susan? This pillar table cuts a chic profile, and its center lazy Susan is a generous 23 inches in width.