Sentence examples for the first contraption from inspiring English sources

The first contraption cuts the hay.

It's been 100 years since Goldberg illustrated his first contraption - "Automatic Weight Reducing Machine," in 1914 and people are still coming back for more.

Da Vinci sketched the oldest known human-powered aircraft designs at the end of the fifteenth century — contraptions that often required people to flap their arms like birds.

He pointed to the first, an elaborate sculptural contraption with spiraling metal arms and bulbs.

The first efforts involved homemade contraptions resembling fire extinguishers that produced a peppery fog.

A battle started with a complex boot-up routine with much switch-flicking in the hanger, as if bringing to life an eccentric workshop contraption for the first time.

So he used a new contraption for the first time tonight -- a small white podium that he balanced on his lap as he sat on a raised platform speaking to the crowd at the airport.

Later, while living in Manchester and working on the Town Hall murals, he painted Madeline Scott, daughter of CP Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, sitting proudly astride her tricycle – the first time that such a contraption had ever been wheeled into a portrait painting.

When I hit the bag the first good hard one, the whole contraption fell down.

He inserted the first "cufflink," a wire-and-metal contraption created by the astronauts using instructions from the ground, into place along the array shortly before 9 a.m.

Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe argued, "If Akeelah and the Bee is a generic, well-oiled commercial contraption, it is the first to credibly dramatize the plight of a truly gifted, poor black child".