The first thing I saw was a model of an oil derrick, the whole contraption about three feet tall.

To move he had first to raise the whole massive contraption and keep it balanced.

If it weren't for the two Talin on board, we could set the whole contraption off from half a million kilometers.

Oddly enough, the whole contraption is stable and quite a lot of fun.

I wonder the whole contraption didn't fall to pieces!

The trouble is, if one part malfunctions, or breaks, the whole contraption may collapse.

It was no great task, however: the whole contraption don't weigh three hundredweight.

The machinery was noisy and the whole contraption lurched several times.

Not one speck of wood or cloth in the whole contraption!

The whole molecular contraption, our first hypothetical autonomous agent, is shown in Figure 3.4.