Even Sir Bernard's primitive device would surely have sent Lyon packing.
Luckily, the problem was not with the baby, but the combination of what he calls a "rather primitive device", and his lack of training.
Sadly, the primitive device handicapped Rose permanently, and now she can never be returned to the wild.
New, portable cameras and fast-drying plates enabled them to photograph movement, something that would have been impossible with the long exposure times required by more primitive devices.
The first firearms were primitive devices lacking both buttstock and trigger; hence, they had to be held under the arm and could scarcely be aimed.
The new generation of haptics-makers tend to be a little embarrassed by these primitive devices, which they have been known to refer to as "joy buzzers" or even "whoopee cushions," in comparison with the new generation of haptics.
Simultaneously, a picture was emerging of the two fairly primitive devices – widely sold pressure cookers, loaded with gunpowder, nails, ball-bearings and shrapnel, and detonated by simple timers, rather than by remote control.
So it appears that the most primitive devices for producing specific, acquired immunity gradually diversified to meet the new environmental hazards as animals moved out of the sea onto the land.
Caitlin Keller, 28, who works in customer service at a tech start-up, was mustering all of her manual dexterity to type out, "Why did they take my phone?" on one of the primitive devices.
Such techniques include building shelters from available materials, making fire without matches, locating water, identifying edible plants, manufacturing tools, hunting and trapping animals with primitive devices, and making protective clothing and blankets from skins and fibres.
These are primitive devices corresponding to the lowest levels of humour; more sophisticated are the techniques employed by Maurice Ravel in La Valse, a parody of the sentimental Viennese waltz, or by Zoltán Kodály in the mock-heroics of his Hungarian folk opera, Háry János.
