Sentence examples for design a contraption from inspiring English sources

Bagehot watched a lesson on the end of slavery in America become a sophisticated discussion of historiography; a science lesson, on gravity and pressure, morphed into a design class the children had to design a contraption to stop an egg breaking on impact with the floor.

Didi, who owns a hardware store near Tel Aviv, and who had previously designed a contraption that took half an hour to tear a sheet of toilet paper from a roll, nodded, and then he and his brother performed a little catechism.

Teams from around the country design a mobile contraption centered on a theme like "Santa and the Evil Elves".

Bill Gates's challenge was very Bill Gates: to drench himself, he designed a new contraption.

Man has schemed about flying like a bird at least since Leonardo da Vinci designed a winged contraption 5 centuries ago.

At Columbia University, he and graduate student R.C. Retherford designed and built a contraption of glass and metal.

A contraption designed to prevent the mass (and smelly) deaths of fish in Howard Beach's Shellbank Basin.

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.

Katie Hopkins even attended and volunteered to be strapped into the Deliverance Machine, a contraption designed to kill users with a cocktail of nitrogen and carbon monoxide after a series of death-affirming questions.

It seems improbable that a piece of ancient machinery, a contraption of levers and pulleys designed in 1913, would be critical to the successful operation of one of the nation's largest commuter railroads.

At one end, a small group huddled by a contraption made of two‑by‑fours, tugging at its joints and examining its design.