The place was crowded with unknown, intricate machines.

Nothing for a Scurvhamite ever happened by accident, Creation was a vast, intricate machine.

It seemed hopeless to try to absorb that mass of material and build the intricate machine in so short a time.

Vision: three men in a room, below a building, watching some sort of giant, intricate machine.

After the company automated the assembly of the tape measure, she learned to operate one of the intricate new machines.

Another hopelessly intricate machine shows up, with lights at its top like the eyes of a crustacean.

Burbank wanted to stall with the intricate machine; but he began to think of another plan.

The women in one scene moved like intricate machines.

How can a machine so tiny and so intricate ever be analyzed?

That would mean understanding not only natural phenomena like weather but also the increasingly intricate machines people build.