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

The grand Stair-Case is very fine, as well for its Contrivance as for its rich Ornaments, but 'tis placed in a Corner, and without a Guide 'tis no easy matter to find it.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

This Prince has built a new Episcopal Palace, the Contrivance of339 which is beautiful.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von