Nor do I like mechanical contraptions appearing mysteriously inside my walls.

She was complaining that she hated the "mechanical contraption" and would be off it within a week.

But the power plants and drive trains will still be mechanical contraptions with hundreds of parts prone to failure.

Behind them, the set, empty of actors, looked like a beautifully designed mechanical contraption.

They also use the carpentry tools and local resources to build mechanical contraptions.

A frankly mechanical contraption that made no real concession to the human form.

Whenever he called, his voice was distorted by some kind of mechanical contraption.

I never had no training of any sort, but I just seem to have a natural bent for getting along with mechanical contraptions.

He called his fledgling system, which could be used to control a range of mechanical contraptions, a "teleautomaton."

You seem to think in mechanical contraptions and electronic circuits.