Tema 607 rescatado del foro de Cthulhu en Inforol.
Lobezno
Dom Oct 17, 2004 11:09 pm
Esta dirección apareció en un periodico y es de la enciclopedia británica de 1911. Creo que puede ser muy útil para buscar referencias de la época.
http://1911encyclopedia.org
vidimus
Dom Oct 17, 2004 11:45 pm
Gracias, Lobezno. Estoy seguro de que será de gran utilidad como consulta.
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Lun Oct 18, 2004 2:11 am
Una herramienta muy curiosa.
Se pueden encontrar cosas tan curiosas como ésta.
escribió:
CAR (Late Lat. carra), a term originally applied to a small two-wheeled vehicle for transport (see CARRIAGE), but also to almost anything in the nature of a carriage, chariot, &c., and to the carrying-part of a balloon. With some specific qualification (tram-car, street-car, railway-car, sleeping-car, motor-car, &c.) it is combined to serve as a general word instead of carriage or vehicle. From Ireland comes the jaunting-car, which is in general use, both in the towns, where it is the commonest public carriage for hire, anfl in the country districts, where it is employed to carry the mails and for the use of tourists. The gentry and more well-to-do farmers also use it as a private carriage in all parts of Ireland. The genuine Irish jaunting-car is a two-wheeled vehicle constructed to carry four persons besides the driver. In the centre, at right angles to the axle, is a well about 18 in. deep, used for carrying parcels or small luggage, and covered with a lid which is usually furnished with a cushion. The well provides a low back to each of the two seats, which are in the form of wings placed over each wheel, with foot boards hanging outside the wheel on hinges, so that when not in use they can be turned up over the seats, thus reducing the width of the car (sometimes very necessary in the narrow country roads) and protecting the seats from the weather. The passengers on each side sit with their backs to each other, with the well between them. The driver sits on a movable box-seat, or dicky, a few inches high, placed across the head of the well, with a footboard to which there is usually no splash-board attached. A more modern form of jaunting-car, known as a long car, chiefly used for tourists, is a four-wheeled vehicle constructed on the same plan, which accommodates as many as eight or ten passengers on each side, and two in addition on a high box-seat beside the driver. In the city of Cork a carriage known as an inside car is in common use. It is a two-wheeled covered carriage in which the passengers sit face to face as in a wagonette. In remote country districts the poorer peasants still sometimes use a primitive fofm of vehicle, called a low-backed car, a simple square shallow box or shelf of wood fastened to an axle without springs. The two wheels are solid wooden disks of the rudest construction, generally without the protection of metal tires, and so small in diameter that the body of the car is raised only a few inches from the ground.
Bueno, eran otros tiempos...
Tech!!!
vidimus
Lun Oct 18, 2004 12:33 pm
Sí que es curiosa la definición de un coche que dan. Supongo que dentro de 100 años nuestras enciclopedias actuales resultarán igual de peculiares .