The boxes Candler's workshop clients learn to construct are complex contraptions with a startling number of folds and angles.
At first blush, however, the thought of listening to the radio on a computer might seem like an idea borrowed from an old Rube Goldberg cartoon in which mind-numbingly complex contraptions are invented to perform very simple tasks.
Not the high-priced complex contraptions sold to unwitting seniors, but the plain-vanilla immediate annuities, where you pay a giant pile of cash to an insurance company in exchange for a guaranteed stream of income for life.
After explaining the inner workings of complex contraptions, including a hulking 1980s-vintage tortellini maker whose metal fingers replicate the movements perfected by countless Italian grandmothers, he emphasized that his company was not merely in the business of selling, but of matching equipment to each restaurant's needs.
In Steam punk, you may find steam-powered robots, clockwork computers and complex contraptions made from wood, brass and wheels.
It sees you stringing together increasingly-complex contraptions to blow up loot across 125 levels, with a neat dash of humour along the way.
The operating-room microscope floats above the patient, held in place by a complex metal contraption.
The world's biggest and most complex scientific contraption would bring a smile to any youngster's face: It's designed to smash things together really, really hard.
By Steven Beschloss July 19 , 2013In 1942, at the New York mansion of the American industrialist John Pierpont Morgan, crowds filed past a large mural titled "Automatic Hitler-Kicking Machine," which depicted a complex and satisfying contraption involving a cat, a mouse, a stripteaser, and the Führer.
