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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 188 — COACHES.

William Johnston translation

“Berlin. A kind of carriage which takes its name from the city of Berlin, in Germany; though some persons ascribe the invention of it to the Italians, and pretend to find the etymology of it in berlina, a name which the latter give to a kind of stage on which criminals are exposed to public ignominy.”—Encyclopédie, ii. p. 209.

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