Near the far end of that spectrum, a company in China gathered global attention in 2016 with plans to build a lane-straddling bus – a novel contraption designed to carry hundreds of passengers over two lanes of traffic, theoretically bypassing congestion.
There are novels that are contraptions, configured like cages, traps, or flypaper, to catch things and hold them.
His novels are giant winged contraptions, packed to capacity, hurtling across time and space, "pitting levity against gravity," as he describes one of his airborne protagonists at the beginning of "The Satanic Verses".
Taking elements from "The Tempest," Palmer's tragicomic first novel imagines a 20th-century filled with steam-powered contraptions and omnipresent robot servants.
A small on-site museum was filled with strange 19th-century tea-making machines like contraptions out of an H. G. Wells novel.
Mr. Speer's fanciful contraption might seem more suitable to a Jules Verne novel than Downtown Manhattan, but many of the city's best minds favored its construction.
There is no shortage of good, or at least novel, ideas for removing space junk, ranging from Death Star-style lasers that would vaporize debris, to space-borne sweeping contraptions reminiscent of an illustration by W. Heath Robinson, the English cartoonist best known for his drawings of eccentric, ingenious and unnecessarily complex machines.
Contraptions don't change consciousness; contraptions are part of consciousness.
These were not small contraptions.
The contraption, which makes it easier to contain organisms and to extract what they produce, will help Biocon to graduate from novel processes to new drug products, such as genetically engineered anti-infectives.
