Sentence examples for industrial contraption from inspiring English sources

"What are you?" I cry, close to real tears, as once more my game is over because the Batmobile, which earlier on could smash through brickwork and steel and iron and concrete like it was popping candy bound by Silly String, doesn't break through the thin propeller of a slow-moving fan and is therefore caught and crushed by the ever-gaining industrial contraption turned instant-death machine.

All of those industrial contraptions and many more were displayed in "Machine Art," an exhibition presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1934.

The industrial-looking contraption swivels around on a steel joint to face customers when they need to sign the screen.

These days, almost everyone knows what a CD-RW burner is: an industrial-looking, square, beige contraption that attaches to your Mac or PC and lets you create your own CD's or even erase and re-record them.

Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age From the glamorous glazed living rooms of Californian Case Study houses, perched precipitously above the twinkling lights of 1950s LA, to the rusting contraptions of the German industrial belt, this expansive survey of architectural photography will show a broad cross-section of images from the 1930s to the present day.

No killer contraption defined the pre-industrial US economy more than Eli Whitney's cotton gin, which made cotton production efficient enough to become big business; this led, however, to an explosion in demand for slaves on Southern plantations to pick the raw material, resulting in the signature moral disaster of American history.

Eleanor Pritchard Works with wools inspired by landscape colours Eleanor weaves hangings, upholstery fabrics and haute couture fabrics on a dobby loom - a huge wooden contraption that looks as though it predates the industrial revolution.

That contraption was made by folks from the Crucible, an industrial arts studio based in Oakland where people can take lessons in welding, blacksmithing and many, many other ways to play with heat and flame.

INDUSTRIAL masks and helmets, electrostatic devices, antique toys and radios and countless peculiar scientific and cockamamie contraptions all make Steve Erenberg's accumulation more than a collection.

MORAINE, Ohio — Few places are more emblematic of the rise of American manufacturing, and its gradual decline, than this once-bustling industrial suburb of Dayton — within sight of the hill from which the Wright Brothers first tried to fly their innovative contraption, even before Kitty Hawk.

No contraption allowed.