contrivance
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The self-taught machinist started tinkering, and about a year and a half-dozen iterations later, he had the Contrivance, a forerunner of today’s Proto Pipe and he decided to move to San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2021
Barker was granted a patent in 1787 for “an entire new Contrivance of Apparatus ... for the Purpose of displaying Views of Nature at large.”
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016
Contrivance can have a long arm too; eventually this one breaks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2010
And thus did our General, at the foremention'd Battle, but with a better Contrivance.
From A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh by Defoe, Daniel
Finally, this same Belt contained a curious Contrivance, by means of a piece of Vellum perforated in divers places, for deciphering the Letters I might receive from his Eminence or his agents.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
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