Sentence examples for contraption which was designed from inspiring English sources

The metal-and-wood contraption, which was designed to look like a man and was dressed as a sorcerer, amazed audiences by playing master-level chess against human opponents around the world, for seventy years.

Six women were trained to operate the contraption, which was played like a pipe organ.

In the nineteenth century, Kempelen's machine was improved on by Sir Charles Wheatstone, and that contraption, which was exhibited in London, was seen by the young Alexander Graham Bell.

They paid a Chinese engineer and a translator to spend three months teaching them how to use the contraption, which is the size of a sport utility vehicle.

The contraption, which is sensitive to the energy of a single photon, could speed the development of new optical communications systems.

The artist's contraption was designed to counter the effects of the Chinese capital's dangerously high air pollution levels.

The contraption was designed by Nasir Mazhar in collaboration with Gaga's own creative production company, Haus of Gaga.

He once lost control of an unwieldy contraption nicknamed the Flying Bedstead that was designed to help astronauts train for the lunar landing.

Not only that, but she uses a special contraption that is designed to give kids an unfair advantage over incompetent grown-ups such as yours truly.

Today's big IBM contraptions are designed to run software written for their great-grandfathers, albeit much faster and more cheaply.

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.