It adapted by focusing on creating mechanical objects of beauty, which are, by many accounts, lovely examples of obsolete technology.
"This gesture of protest further proves the obvious futility of attempting to regulate speech and ban simple mechanical objects; both of which are very un-American ideas".
A Sphinx-like air of inscrutability persists in Donnelly's absorbing new objects, which she carved using a mechanical blade and, in the case of a towering slab of polished quartzite, a chisel.
Mechanical materialism is the theory that the world consists entirely of hard, massy material objects, which, though perhaps imperceptibly small, are otherwise like such things as stones.
There are three types of objects, which are, movable objects, non-movable objects and location.
We wish to provide descriptions of global chromosomal processes from an entirely new perspective in which chromosomes are considered as mechanical objects.
He also makes each one out of scrap and junk, many of which are parts or pieces of other junked mechanical objects.
Mr. Resnick, whose work with children and learning at the Media Lab helped the Lego Group create its highly successful Mindstorms robotic construction kits in 1998, said he wanted to produce something in which the emphasis was not on the building of mechanical objects.
But he, too, discovered things to enjoy at the exhibition, which finds clever ways to describe the challenges inherent in getting mechanical objects to do things that humans find easy — like the interactive station that invites people to try tying shoelaces with two pairs of pliers.
It is a parade of whimsical mechanical constructions loosely surrounded by a lecture concerning our fantasies about mechanical objects.
