Sentence examples for bathing machine from inspiring English sources

A French traveller, M. Francis Wey, who published "Les Anglais Chez Eux" in 1836, describes his own experience on a Sunday morning when, having bathed stark, he had to return to his bathing machine among a party of ladies.

In reading about Victorian seaside resorts, I've come across several passing mentions of a contraption called a bathing machine.

This portrait was obviously taken by a beach photographer with his customer posing between the wheels of a bathing machine.

The mystery girl Can you see the little face peering out from behind the wheel of the bathing machine on the left of the picture?

Men, in particular, were expected to swim naked, albeit at their own segregated beaches, while the ladies tended to enter the water more discreetly, with the help of a bathing machine.

Nearby, the natural skincare line Haeckels mixes botanicals from the chalk-reef coastline in its cliff-top lab overlooking the bay, and will soon unveil a Victorian-style bathing machine — which is essentially a sauna that wheels into the water.

The Victorian craze for bathing in the sea was catered for in the late 19th century by saltwater baths adjacent to the pier (since demolished, though the foundations remain), and bathing machines on the main beach.

Kathryn Ferry Her book, Beach Huts and Bathing Machines, is due to be published in spring 2009.

Although bathing machines were popular in England and France, they never really caught on in America.

One called for the return of "the Victorian habit of descending fully clad into the surf from bathing machines".

"I am devoted to the sport of the sea, and your prudery forbids me the one-piece bathing suit, and you have no private bathing machines.