Sentence examples for First contraption from inspiring English sources

The first contraption cuts the hay.

It's been 100 years since Goldberg illustrated his first contraption - "Automatic Weight Reducing Machine," in 1914 and people are still coming back for more.

But despite its modern shell, the nearly twelve-thousand-pound ball is a nineteenth-century contraption.

Da Vinci sketched the oldest known human-powered aircraft designs at the end of the fifteenth century — contraptions that often required people to flap their arms like birds.

Help them out and tell them the stories about when you first saw that contraption!

I found it hard to love the second-hand, shared contraption with no gears and a solid seat that threatened to damage my future child-bearing capacities.

Compared to the swallows, the early bats — fluttering between the trees — look, at first, like origami contraptions capable only of struggling flight.

Because board employees find computers bewildering, they decided to abandon modern scanning machines for the city's primary elections this year and bring back the old mechanical contraptions first used in 1910.

James Carrow, the hotel's manager, said the residents ignored the bright-yellow contraption at first.

He pointed to the first, an elaborate sculptural contraption with spiraling metal arms and bulbs.

I'm not sure where or how I first heard about the contraption, but I found out that several people I knew had one.