Showing posts with label legs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legs. Show all posts
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Friday, 8 June 2012
Sunday, 3 June 2012
"The Sedan, a glass-windowed, cloth-lined enclosed chair or litter was developed in London during the early 1630s. Its name, according to Henry Peacham (1576-1644, author of Coach & Sedan, 1636) derives from the Principality of Sedan on the Meuse, an important centre of cloth manufacture and a Protestant enclave on the North European mainland. The two names ‘sedan’ and ‘chair’ were commonly combined curing the first decade of the 18th century and by the late 19th century the combined term came to describe all hand-carried transport with a seated occupant. Many European countries extended the use of earlier terms to include this new glass-windowed carrying chair. So France used chaise a porteur(s) and Spain silla de manos. In Italy portantina replaced seggiola, whilst in Germany Sänfte described the new chair as well as the mule-litters already in use."
Via: A Brief history of the Sedan Chair
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Friday, 13 April 2012
Exploring nature and nature exploring: The TE+ND Rovers, are mobile, interactive, robotic plant-fostering environments. The full story of their creation at Make.Read more...
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Friday, 30 September 2011
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Sunday, 4 September 2011
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Monday, 22 August 2011
During the petrol shortage various modes of transport started to crop up. By Jonathan JacobRead more...
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Friday, 5 August 2011
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Carl Faberge's Automaton Sedan Chair with a Figure of Catherine the Great. 1908-1917. Via:
Friday, 8 July 2011
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