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	Bathing machine - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bathing machine was a device which flourished in the 19th century to allow people to wade in the ocean at beaches without violating Victorian notions of modesty.
		Bathing machines would often be equipped with a small flag which could be raised by the bather as a signal to the driver that they were ready to return to shore.
		Bathing machines were most common in the United Kingdom and parts of the British Empire with a sizable British population, but were also used at beaches in France, Germany, the United States, and some other nations.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Bathing_machine (788 words)

	MACHINE - LoveToKnow Article on MACHINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The term simple machine is applied to the six so-called mechanical powers the lever, wedge, wheel and axle, pulley, screw, and inclined plane.
		The word machine was formerly applied to vehicles, such as stage-coaches, andc., and is still applied to carriages in Scotland; a survival of this use is in the term bathing machine.
		A stage device of the ancient Greek drama gave rise to the proverbial expression, the god from the machine, Lat.
	68.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MACHINE.htm (260 words)

	Talk:Bathing machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If I remember correctly it was an increased interest in bathing in the open.
		The article also fails to mention that the main reason for using a bathing machine was for use in beaches where it was shallow for a long way out.
		Both an increase in interest in bathing per se - prior to this bathing for pleasure or for curative reasons was not common; if you needed to go into the sea (as a boatman, for example) you did but it wasn't an activity in and of itself, plus ideas of modesty gaining ground.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Bathing_machine (322 words)

	Bath - Definition of Bath by Webster Dictionary
		a kind of vapor bath which consists in a prolonged exposure of the body to the influence of the steam of water, followed by washings and shampooings.
		a kind of bath in which a profuse perspiration is produced by hot air, after which the body is washed and shampooed.
		A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
	www.webster-dictionary.net /definition/bath (360 words)

	bathing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We think of bathing as a very private activity conducted in the home, but bathing in Rome was a communal activity, conducted for the most part in public...
		The bathing machine was a device which flourished in the 19th century to allow...
		Bathing machines were in the form of roofed and walled wooden carts which...
	www.hotvsnot.com /search/?s=bathing (358 words)

	Bathing - Jane Austen at the seaside
		Sea bathing in combination with the drinking of sea water became fashionable as the cure for many and varied diseases in the 18th century.
		The bathing machines remained in active use on English beaches until the 1890s, when they began to be parked on the beach.
		In addition to bathing costumes, the seaside gave rise to fashions to be worn during a visit to the seaside.
	www.jasa.net.au /seaside/bathing.htm (3217 words)

	'Skimpy' bathing attire outlawed at Rehoboth Beach in 1905 - Delaware Coast Press - delmarvanow.com
		After the prospective swimmer was properly dressed, the bathing machine was rolled through the surf, and the bather climbed down a short ladder into the water.
		Although lines of bathing machines were common in European, the contraption never caught on in Rehoboth Beach but visitors to the Delaware resort were often influenced by bathing attire worn in Europe.
		The bathing suits' coverage assured the wearer would not tan or give them a ruddy complexion that was the mark of a peasant field hand.
	www.delmarvanow.com /deweybeach/stories/20040804/977396.html (900 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The conventions of modesty that prevailed when sea bathing became popular dictated that there would need to be some way of preserving the dignity of the individual to get into the water unobserved and so heralded the invention of the bathing machine.
		This machine somewhat pre-dates the device that became popular over a century later when a new ‘liberalism’ allowed both men and women to indulge in sea bathing, albeit segregated for some years to come, and was an activity popularised by princes and recommended by doctors as beneficial to the health.
		Having said that, some bathing machines did have small shutters on the side to allow a certain amount of light for the bather to see what they were doing as they changed, but allowing for no one to see them.
	www.dollshouseworld.com /archive/article_edit.asp?artid=1098 (278 words)

	Victorian Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bathing machines were little wooden shacks or houses, usually on wheels, which allowed modest people a place to change to their swimming costumes and get into the water without being seen.
		When the users had changed and hung their clothing up on the hooks out of the reach of the water, the house could be rolled into the surf far enough that the users could swim out the front door and play in the water without having to stand, undisguised, in their swimming suits.
		For much of the century women used the bathing machines and men swam nude, or at least it was common enough for men to swim nude that it would not have been shocking.
	condor.stcloudstate.edu /~scogdill/19thc/socvicts/things.html (1974 words)

	Bognor Local History Articles: sponsored by Cottagewebs
		Scarborough was the first seaside resort to have the bathing machines for general use in 1735.
		King George III used bathing machines in Weymouth during 1789 and Queen Victoria had her own machine, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.
		Bathing machines are also used by the Bognor Local History Society as their advertising logo, which can be found on badges and some of the other souvenirs that are on sale today in their Museum in the High Street.
	www.bognor-local-history.co.uk /article18.html (1183 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
		To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.
		[1913 Webster] Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=bathing (154 words)

	Nudist Naturist Place (Cheef's) - Nude Sea Bathing: Nothing New. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was for this reason that they introduced the bathing machine, the bathing dress for women and bathing drawers for men.
		However, those use to bathing naked in the sea rejected the idea to begin with, but around the year 1800 the bathing dress became fashionable among women.
		Opposition to naked sea bathing grew and gradually the coastal resorts began to pass by-laws based on Bournemouth’s by-law of about 1833, which insisted on the use of bathing attire.
	cheef.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8 (665 words)

	Bikini Science--1700-1900
		The remarkable machines continue to be popular throughout the 19th century (E188101) and even into the 20th century, and can be spotted in many photographs.
		The bathing dress longsleeved bustled (AB188610) appears on the beach by the middle of the 1800s, although society ladies may find this cumbersome to wear in water.
		The sensuality of bathing is also a theme discovered, especially the quiet moments of topless or nude bathing (PF190010), and sometimes with voyeurism one of its subtexts (WM185210).
	www.bikiniscience.com /chronology/1700-1900_SS/1700-1900.html (1467 words)

	Bathing Beauty Dog Washing System
		Thousands of dog groomers also depend upon the same technology to improve their dog cleaning process, to reduce bathing times by half, to reduce drying times, to virtually eliminate shoulder and upper back stress and improve the comfort level for their doggy clients.
		The Hanvey Bathing Beauty is the first bathing system with a pump that cannot be tipped over by the bathing hose.
		Also be aware that some competing bather systems attach their hose to the top of their pump which typically will require you to do something to keep the pump upright while in use.
	www.northcoastmarines.com /bathing-beauty.htm (1316 words)

	Blanche McManus. The American Woman Abroad. Cities of Pleasure.
		One can bathe from one of a numbered row of bath-houses, little coop-like cages, or from a "bathing machine," while there are on all sides sturdy Norman fishermen hanging about, whose business it is to carry the timid out into the surf and teach them to swim--of course at a fixed price.
		One bathes here exclusively from the bathing machine, a little house on wheels; you enter, a man hitches a horse, and the "machine" is taken on the run down into the surf.
		The charge for the bath cabin here is twenty cents for a small one and fifty cents for one more commodious, while the rate for the mushroom basket chairs and a foot stool is twenty cents a day.
	www.kellscraft.com /americanwoman/americanwoman11.html (5386 words)

	Adelaide - Beaches and Bathing
		While sea bathing was an activity attractive to many people the moral standards of the day were an inhibition in making it a pastime to be shared mutually by the whole family.
		Half the machine is carpeted, and has a well-cushioned seat on either side, the other half being perforated with holes so as to allow the water to run off when first coming out.
		It frequently happens that when men are bathing, females are in the habit of riding up and down the beach, generally at the water's edge, thereby compelling any man with any degree of self-respect to remain in the water longer than necessary.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /manning/adelaide/beaches/beaches.htm (4040 words)

	AIC Art Explorer : AIC : Text : Essay: "The Little Boudin Beach Scene" by William Maxwell
		The cloud bank has not yet blotted out the sunshine, which falls on two bathing machines in the center of the picture and a woman in a vast white crinoline.
		The two bathing machines in the center of the picture are a warmer white that is verging on ivory.
		The color red is placed carefully throughout the picture—behind the woman in white, in a pile of clothing under a bathing machine, in the dress of a woman in the right foreground, and in the cape of a talker seated some distance behind her near a flagpole.
	www.artic.edu /artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=426 (1147 words)

	VDARE.com: 03/21/04 - Japanese Substitute Inventiveness for Immigration; NYT Shocked
		A roll-in machine means that attendants don't have to manhandle the elders' wizened naked bodies into the tub, which must be a relief to all concerned.
		Greater automation means bathing times are less dependent on the staff's work schedules, which can be a blessing to old people struggling with incontinence.
		But the NYT can't be bothered with what a bunch of old ladies want, not when it has important brow-furrowing to do over the dark urges behind the Japanese drive to empower their elderly.
	www.vdare.com /sailer/japanese_robots.htm (872 words)

	Bathing machines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bathing machine was part of sea-bathing etiquette which was more rigorously enforced upon women than men, but was expected to be observed by people of both sexes among those who wished to be considered "proper".
		This page also includes information about naked sea bathing in the Victorian era, and features a country clergyman's journal entry on that subject.
		Photo of bathing machines - from the Ysgol San Siôr school website.
	www.mirabilis.ca /archives/001931.html (165 words)

	Aqua Chi Machine - Toll free: 1-888-551-6982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Aqua Chi Machine is a water energy system used to re-balance and amplify your body's bio electric field enabling the body to heal itself, by creating specific electromagnetic frequencies and harmonics, which are transmitted to the body through the water medium.
		The Aqua Chi Machine is self contained and is used in an ordinary bath tub or foot bath.
		The Aqua Chi machine is not a cure for any medical condition, by recharging your body, you can activate the body's own natural ability to heal itself, and you may find a much greater sense of well being after use.
	www.waterchi.com (656 words)

	Microfiber Towels and Gloves
		This is the easy way to dry your dog or cat after a bath.
		These mittens are made from the same top quality microfiber as our bath towels.
		Machine washable to use over and over again.
	www.northcoastmarines.com /microfiber.htm (449 words)

	Lifes a Beach - The Mariners' Museum - Newport News, Virginia
		Step onto a boardwalk in front of a crowded beach scene and enter the eighteenth century during the birth of seaside leisure when trendsetters flocked to ocean spa resorts.
		Vintage suits coupled with period images reveal how unrevealing head-to-toe bathing costumes were at that time.
		You'll see a full-scale replica of a bathing machine-used in the 1800s by bathers wanting privacy when changing into their suits.
	www.mariner.org /exhibitions/lifesabeach (262 words)

	Cottage-Rental - Holiday Rentals - Holiday Rentals - Holiday homes and vacation cottages for rent on Fyn, Funen, ...
		75 m fromchild friendly bathing beach with bathing jetty is a new house for rent.
		Newly renovated wooden cottage, 69 m² for 5 persons with woodburner located in beautiful surroundings 200 meter from nice bathing beach.
		The holiday house,130 m² and for 6 persons, is the pearl on southern Funen with a private childfriendly bathing beach.3 week one boat for one week.
	www.ferieboligweb.dk /eng_fyn.htm (1277 words)

	inscription on the plaque ab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is reported to have been used by the Cattigal people prior to and after European settlement and it is along this shore that Sydney's first baths were built.
		This artwork traces the perimeter of the former Domain Baths for Ladies.
		a bathing machine is evoked by the stair, cage and portal frame to represent the closeted space of expected modesty associated with the early days of bathing...the portal frame of the bathing machine signals across the bay via the obsolete language of Morse code.
	www-personal.usyd.edu.au /~rbacken/text/ab01txt.html (169 words)

	Welcome to GroomStar - Tubs, Showers and Bathing Equipment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Allows you to bathe animals in a fraction of the time of hand bathing and saves $$$ on shampoo and conditioner.
		With the New and Improved Booster Bath, washing your dog will be a bonding and enjoyable experience.
		Designed to work with your washing machine valves and garden hose, this kit permanently installs in 3 easy steps (washer will operate normally).
	www.groomstar.com /bathing-equip.html (157 words)

	Mouson's Bathing Machine Ad, a quaint Victorian art print from Circa Victoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bathing Machine Ad A model of Victorian propriety, the bathing machine ruled the waves at Britain's seaside resorts during the nineteenth century.
		Judging by the following comments published in 1886 London, the Victorian bathing machine was not every Englishman's cup of tea.
		According to the words of a once popular song, “A life on the ocean wave, a home on the boundless deep,” offers attractions unattainable by any other...
	www.circavictoria.com /victorian_prints/mousons.htm (163 words)

	MACHINE - LoveToKnow Article on MACHINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Figuratively, the word is used of persons whose actions seem to be regulated according to a rigid and unchanging system.
		Euripides has been reproached with an excessive use of the device, but it has been pointed out (A.E. Haigh, Tragic Drama of the Greeks, p.
		To properly cite this MACHINE article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MACHINE.htm (260 words)

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		In an unusual and remarkably swift } evolutionary move, some bathing machines developed the ability to blend } in with their surroundings, like a chameleon but with texture and } materials too, by looking and behaving just like a wooden changing room } on wheels.
		The constant salt water made the machines peckish, and they } occasionally ate their occupants; although the large size of the } typical Victorian family meant that even when the loss was noticed, it } was usually with gratitude at the saving of the rail fare home.
		Their ability to } change shape rapidly, and constant need to disguise their identity, led } to an apparent explosion in the number of organ-grinding monkeys, dirty } ice-cream kiosks, graffitied amusement arcades and tired-looking } donkeys which have come to be recognised as the hallmark of the British } seaside experience.
	www.cs.indiana.edu /ftp/oracle/11/1120 (3336 words)

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