The phrase "a new contraption a" is not correct in written English.
It appears to be an incomplete phrase and lacks proper structure.
Example: "I just invented a new contraption that can help with household chores."
Alternatives: "a novel device" or "an innovative gadget".
This all came back to her when she saw an ad in the "Times" for a new contraption at Hammacher Schlemmer - a Cream Maker.
So he used a new contraption for the first time tonight -- a small white podium that he balanced on his lap as he sat on a raised platform speaking to the crowd at the airport.
Bill Gates's challenge was very Bill Gates: to drench himself, he designed a new contraption.
"With the iPads, smartphones, game boxes — constantly being pushed onto a new contraption — fetishists — techno — mumbo jumbo — Does it make me wiser?
With his father, Norman Kaufman, he has invested at least $1 million over the last decade in batting cages, two go-kart tracks and, this year, a new contraption that involves small boats, mounted guns and foamy balls.
His new firm, ClearCube Technology in Austin, Tex., wants to replace the desktop PC with a new contraption he calls "the blade".
He's demoing a new contraption he built himself by rigging an EEG sensor-based Mattel MindFlex toy, vintage '80s Moog synthesizer, and distortion pedal.
A growing number of American families were able afford to move to the suburbs, buy homes, install air conditioners, purchase a new contraption called a television, pay for a new car every few years, take a yearly vacation (and stay at a new phenomenon called a "motel") and even fly on an airplane.
This is true even of the newest contraption, an especially powerful induction coil which resembles a five-inch firecracker.
The situation is the same (nobody really knows what the hell is happening), they've just got a fancy new contraption to show us Democrats just how screwed we really are.
