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How did bathing machines help people on the beaches in the 18th and 19th centuries?

Public morality in Great Britain and its colonies, and in many other countries of Europe and America in the 18th and 19th centuries, did not allow swimming or sunbathing on the beach, being visible to people of the opposite sex. In this regard, bathing cars became widespread - covered wagons transported by horses from the shore to the reservoir and back. The bather entered it dressed, changed into a bathing suit and went down the stairs into the water, and so that no one could see him from the shore. In popular resorts, special rails were built for such machines, and in some places they were moved even without horses using steam engines. The popularity of bathing machines quickly faded in the early 20th century after mixed bathing was allowed on the beaches.

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