It is a contraption similar to a waterwheel with spokes of a bicycle wheel. The cage is moved into the screen through a golden contraption. Guests rode in Flik's bug-made contraption fashioned from man-made objects. The Qing court looked on the strange contraption with disfavor and had the railway dismantled. Garnerin tested his contraption by leaping from a hydrogen balloon above Paris. It was actually a contraption in her outfit. Finally, Zorba's elaborate contraption to transport timber down the hill is complete. You are seated in a reclining chair with a steel contraption on your head. A needle-like contraption called air brake protrudes from the piston. "the most complicated phone-based contraption we've ever taken apart". The two construct a noise-sucking contraption which ruins the mega-piano's opening concert. When the contraption is ignited, rockets shoot out rapidly in all directions. She originally only had the power of flight thanks to a contraption under her suit. Popular artists within the genre include The Tiger Lillies and Circus Contraption. Jones occasionally plays "The Contraption," a prepared lap steel guitar.