Sentence examples for ingenious contraption from inspiring English sources

Wallace meets every challenge in life by inventing some ingenious contraption in the eccentric English tradition of Heath Robinson and Roland Emmett.

1978 The Belgian Michel Pollentier tried to evade drug testing with an ingenious contraption: a pump-action rubber bulb hidden in his armpit and filled with somebody else's urine.

The glass table in the corner ($529 from the Door Store) is an ingenious contraption, chosen for its leaves, which unfold like beetle wings to make a table for four, and its glass, which keeps the room feeling light and uncramped.

Despite its amazing capacity to self-heal, it's regarded as a mere mechanical marvel, like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz -- to be oiled, excised, and/or flooded with exogenous chemicals, an ingenious contraption incapable of learning, progressing, or manifesting.

The business flourished, and displayed its most ingenious contraptions at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London.

Tasked with building a machine that could shoot the most Ping-Pong balls into a tube, the students came up with dozens of ingenious contraptions.

They are ingenious contraptions which aggregate a lot of scattered information, filter out some noise, and convert it all into easily digestible probabilities.

The designer Art Donovan has written 17 short biographies of his competitors for "The Art of Steampunk: Extraordinary Devices and Ingenious Contraptions From the Leading Artists of the Steampunk Movement" (Fox Chapel Publishing).

A report in the Antiques column on Friday about books on Steampunk artisans and their creations referred imprecisely to Art Donovan, author of "The Art of Steampunk: Extraordinary Devices and Ingenious Contraptions From the Leading Artists of the Steampunk Movement".

Inside a modern, low-slung building owned by Alatech Healthcare, ingenious contraptions almost as long as a football field repeatedly dip 16,000 phallic-shaped bulbs into vats of latex, with the capacity to turn out a billion condoms a year.

As a child, Thomas Heatherwick was a fan of the comic inventions of W Heath Robinson, whose best drawings – the Automatic Back Scratcher, the Self-Operating Napkin – featured ingenious contraptions held together by cogs, pulleys, steam kettles, candles and lengths of knotted string.