He took Mould to the room without any floorboards, and helped him piece together a bizarre contraption containing metal beams, weights and cogs.

A bizarre contraption.

The telemetry devices used to control the Spinosaurus range from simple handheld units, reminiscent of a video-game joystick, to bizarre contraptions you wouldn't find anywhere else.

Within a minute, the large parking lot south of the school was covered with soldiers, staring at the bizarre yellow contraptions barring their way.

Mr. Miller's company displayed what may have been the most bizarre contraption at the show: the "Around the Corner" drill bit, which bores holes in a right angle.

These engaged the clockwork mechanism which powered the bizarre contraption.

His work, including extremely labor-intensive and often huge drawings and collages as well as bizarre mechanical contraptions, is so diverse as to defy generalization.

But fear not, neither the bizarre old contraption nor the museum itself are in jeopardy, according to T. R. Anson, the state's Commissioner of Public Works.

From his dreams, he says, he plucks the mythical figures, strange animals and bizarre contraptions that appear in his shows.

The more ordinary humans who will probably form the bulk of the New Eden inhabitants will not be at all comfortable with these bizarre mechanical contraptions scurrying all over their realm.