It has been a long haul since George Stephen, Weber's founder, invented the covered kettle grill in 1954 and drove his contraption from hardware store to hardware store, selling his product as a revolutionary way to dine and socialize in the backyard.
With a rig set up on a barge, the team drives a contraption called a split-spoon into the canal bottom, which sucks up the muck into a hollow metal tube that can be split open once it is back on board.
The people who drive these various contraptions (a 19,000-ton coal train, incidentally, may be the largest moving object on dry land) love their work.
"As we were walking down the drive, there was this contraption that the house owners had dumped in the garden – it looked like a robot out of Star Wars," he explains.
The unwieldy contraption would drive an auger about four feet long into the hard-packed ground for anyone gutsy enough to grab the handlebars on either side and fire it up.
Of course, you have to wonder a great deal about how this contraption will drive.
After all, disk drives are hopeless contraptions, whirligigs of complexity.
In Justin Dearinger's Reddit AMA, he claimed that "they actually take out a lot of the stuff that they showed on TV," such as in his case, a "pop-up" champagne contraption and a "drive-in theater".
The third class is the contraption category and these vehicles feature drive trains completely fabricated by students ranging from pendulum propulsion to pulse jet engines.
They have to put their cars on a dynomometer, a contraption that can mimic real-world driving conditions, and go for a "drive".
He then drives the car onto a dynamometer, a big contraption that measures the engine's torque and horsepower while the car runs standing still.
