But visitors can marvel at the skill of the engineers — among other things, the cars had an ingenious self-braking feature in the event of a rope break.
There was a single paying exhibitor — "Please visit our exhibitor," implored the organizers — whose invention, FloodBreak, was an ingenious, self-deploying floodgate big enough to protect a garage but not at all big enough to protect Manhattan.
Gunpowder was difficult and dangerous to ignite at sea so, using pyrotechnic technology, Coston found a way that the flares could be hand-held and incorporate an ingenious self-igniting device.
In Virginia, Joel Salatin has developed an ingenious self-sufficient rotation of grass-fed livestock: cattle, chickens and rabbits that take turns eating, and feeding, the same small pasture.
Many of the kids peered inside the writing hut — they weren't allowed in — and seemed to discover there further evidence that Dahl was a strangely sympathetic adult who shared a preoccupation with candy, a clinical fascination with the body, and a love of ingenious, self-devised schemes.
He adds: "As a solution to the quandary of how to perform violent acts of protests without being scapegoated by nativist rhetoric around being brutes in need of the civilizing embrace of mother China, one cannot doubt that there is something ingenious to self-immolation".
If we fail we will lose the most potent and ingenious vehicle for self-rule ever invented.
In 1959, Kerouac told the talk-show host Steve Allen that it took him three weeks, although this, too, was later revealed to be an ingenious bit of self-mythologizing.
Poring over technicolor images of the ultimate good girls, the female Catholic saints, with their ingenious stratagems for self-abasement (St. Veronica may be the winner: she washes the floor with her tongue), Harrison finds religious reasons for her self-mortification.
The sunny uplands of a Labour future do not beckon, at least for me: reading the manifesto closely, I realised there's an ingenious mechanism of self-fulfilment at work which, for example, allows Labour to stoke fear of crime and create thousands of new criminal offences, then employ 17,000 new police officers and 16,000 new community support officers and swell the prison population by 24,000.
She was self-reliant, ingenious and plucky, and for her time and place remarkably well behaved.
