Bascule

"Bascule" is the French word for "seesaw," and this drawbridge works exactly like a seesaw.

SFGate: Top News Stories 2009

Steel Bascule Desk, $15,930 When English Interior designers want proper new furniture crafted to a standard maintained by furniture of eras past, they go to Soane on London's Pimlico Road.

British Furniture Invasion 2011

Bascule {the Rascule} from Iain M. Banks's Feersum Endjinn - (another brilliant Banks character, full of naive youthful pluck, and to whom the reader becomes incredibly close thanks to his ergot narrative)

Who are Your Favorite Literary Science Fiction Characters? 2006

Bascule {the Rascule} from Iain M. Banks's Feersum Endjinn - (another brilliant Banks character, full of naive youthful pluck, and to whom the reader becomes incredibly close thanks to his ergot narrative)

Who are Your Favorite Literary Science Fiction Characters? 2006

The article that Bascule pointed to suggests one solution: "algae-based biodiesel production is 100 time more efficient than traditional biodiesel, which is primarily soy-based in the United States."

The Speculist: Phil and Stephen to Split $25 Million Earth Challenge Prize 2007

I read Feersum Endjinn earlier this year, and was amazed by Banks' prescient envisioning of 1337 sp34k provided in narrative in every third chapter by Bascule, as well as the way that brilliantly simulated electronic worlds mixed with mysticism, years before the Matrix.

Recent Reading Roundup 9 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

Bascule bridges accommodate boats nicely but require height clearance at their approaches to and over the river.

206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

Bascule bridges accommodate boats nicely but require height clearance at their approaches to and over the river.

206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

Bascule bridges accommodate boats nicely but require height clearance at their approaches to and over the river.

206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

Bascule Bar boasts the largest whisky selection in the Southern Hemisphere

CNN.com 2011