Significats de mechanical contrivance en anglès

Scenery and mechanical contrivance may heighten the effects, but they are not absolute essentials.

They are crammed choke-full with every known mechanical contrivance for the production of ear-stunning noises.

Opponents ask for a mechanical contrivance that will wind up and go like a clock.

The food has just arrived from a central depot in a mechanical contrivance which runs underground.

I found him a man of excellent mechanical contrivance, and received considerable pleasure from his communications.

By an ingenious mechanical contrivance one man is enabled to raise and lower it with perfect facility.

They evidently did not know whether to regard the watch as a mechanical contrivance or a living creature.

A Parliamentary representative is something better than a mechanical contrivance for registering the opinions of electors on certain subjects.

When he isn't, you can fancy what!"-"He'sonly a mechanical contrivance; he's not a man," said Beppo.

At no time should the stammerer resort to the use of any mechanical contrivance to aid him in speaking correctly.

By a clever mechanical contrivance the ladder went up and down something on the principle of an automatic shade roller.

They are at best only a mechanical contrivance, and do not add anything to the improvement of the diseased condition.

The Manipulator combines, in a single ingenious mechanical contrivance, the several movements best adapted for the promotion of healthy functional activity.

I will cause this lady to disappear under your very eyes, without the aid of any mechanical contrivance or artificial device.

He stands in the shadow of the mechanical contrivance on which he has been illustrating his points; leans for support on it.

One of the first to succeed in inventing something that approached a practical mechanical contrivance was Andrew Gordon, a Scotch Benedictine monk.