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A few people have insinuated falsely that Jesus's machine was a draisienne, an unlikely mount for a hill-climbing contest.
interlude Gwenda 2004
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Slide 16: of Bicycles Early 19th century, Baron von Drais 'draisienne
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Slide 17: of Bicycles Early 19th century, Baron von Drais 'draisienne
mollusque commented on the word draisienne
I looked to the right, where velocipedes with huge art-nouveau wheels and draisiennes with their flat, scooterlike bars evoked gentlemen in stovepipe hats, knights of progress pedaling through the Bois de Boulogne.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 10
September 29, 2008