A relay is a device in which the solenoid principle is applied to opening and closing light-current electrical circuits.
There is the addition of a metatheatrical device in which the actors, who play both themselves and the characters, comment on the action.
"The biothesiometer is a device in which the men set their penis into a trough, and it slowly starts to vibrate," he explained.
A third alternative is a hybrid, known as a boosted fission device, in which the yield of an orthodox atomic bomb is increased by the addition of small amounts of hydrogen isotopes, such as deuterium and tritium, that undergo fusion.
Lloyd's production – with its clever framing device in which the women in the prison are putting on the plays and in the process discovering themselves – is a glorious reminder that genuine diversity on stage offers astonishing creative benefits.
And his "Fools' Paradise" likewise borrows from Ashton's "Monotones" a wonderful pas de trois device in which the woman does pirouettes supported by one man while nearby another man does the same pirouettes unsupported.
One Baconian discerned hidden ciphers in the text by means of a hand-cranked device in which the complete works of Shakespeare, Bacon, and various contemporaries were joined into a continuous scroll and spun on large drums.
The cleverness is in the framing device in which the dream becomes an anxiety nightmare experienced by teenager Alice Abby Wainn) on the night before she is due to take a potentially life-changing exam.
Or, for the ambitious, you can try a pi-ku that's both a haiku and a mnemonic device in which the number of characters in each word equals the value of the corresponding digit of pi.
She sticks pretty much to Sophocles's version of the story, the oldest and best-known telling that makes sense, but she develops hints in that original text to introduce a device in which the story is told by a crow.
The clock, operates with what is known as a silk-thread suspension mechanism, a delicate and sometimes temperamental device in which the pendulum hangs from a tiny loop of silk thread.
