Sentence examples for ingenious mechanic from inspiring English sources

I recalled Price's description of the maker of the Mechanism — "some unknown ingenious mechanic" — and wondered if this mysterious maker might have been a bit like Wright, with a workshop similarly cluttered with machines.

But who? Price called the inventor simply "some unknown ingenious mechanic".

Not Jules, though, the tough, ingenious mechanic who takes over from Holston as Howey's lead character.

According to the 1615 Caius annals, "[h]e was excellent both in contrivance and execution, nor was he inferior to the most ingenious mechanic in the making of instruments, either of brass or any other matter".

As with any good caper movie, Soderbergh dwells lovingly on the assembly of the crew and the ingenious mechanics of the robbery itself.

Through ingenious mechanics linked to the mattress, the Nawab was able to set the figures in motion so that they fanned him while winking at him, against a 30-minute cycle of music from Gounod's Faust generated by a music box built into the bed.

The Romans, always ingenious mechanics, added numerous improvements to both simply handled saws and frame saws but did not make push saws despite the advantage of the kerf that made the saw easier to work with and less liable to buckle.

Andrew Nahum, project director of "The Making of the Modern World," the exhibit on the history of technology in London, called the clock "an example of sublime technology," not only because of its ingenious mechanics but also because of its "moral reflection".

But instead, this archetypal premise is paired with an ingenious rewind mechanic to explore the fallibility of memory and the subjective (sometimes even semi-delusional) way we see ourselves and our motivations.

"It is true he was very ingenious in mechanics, but it is also well known he was extremely illiterate, and his jokes and sarcasms on the Bible, with which his conversation abounded, shewed the most contemptible ignorance of eastern history and manners, and indeed of every thing".

Its mechanisms are smooth, ingenious.