It is, just to look at it, refreshingly different – and not the least bit ostentatious on account of its diminutive size – sporting as it does its own pop-up window pass and awesome little ‘lazy susan ...

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.

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 ...

Cut the boards for the large and small Lazy Susan discs. For my 18- and 10-inch-diameter circles, I cut my maple board into four 19-inch lengths for the top and three 11-inch lengths for the bottom.

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 ...