Re "A Quiet Revolt Against the Rules on SIDS" (Oct . 18: From age 4 months, our son Henry, was too big for the wedge -- a cushioned contraption designed to keep him on his back while he slept.
When the young Edward is racked with growing pains, his bed is transformed into a clanking contraption designed to stretch those muscles; and there is something touching in the sight of the old Edward wearing his pajamas in the bath and inviting his wife — played by Jessica Lange, no less — to join him for a wallow.
From there it didn't take much convincing before Renwick agreed to put a malaise trap in his backyard, a tent-like contraption designed to collect insects for analysis by NHM researchers.
A team of geeks has devoted 5,000 man hours over six months to building a van-sized contraption designed to do nothing more complicated than pop a single balloon.
"We just had a café explosion," a fire official said, on a quick tour that passed a burned-out bus and a car-shaped metal contraption designed to shoot flames.
It doesn't help that when it comes to too-big-to-fail banks the current system of financial regulation is a rickety, complicated, Rube Goldberg-ish contraption designed to work around the massive danger that they pose to the economy.
They're not hoppers jammed with bright, popping details; they are, like Shakespeare's sonnets, little contraptions designed to stop, and yet unable to stop, the passing of time.
What he had overcome were the unexpected difficulties of getting a contraption designed in the 19th century to work in the 21st.That, as it happens, is exactly the problem faced by the world's science museums.
The artist's contraption was designed to counter the effects of the Chinese capital's dangerously high air pollution levels.
