An engineer in the Hessian army first devised a predecessor to the modern computer in 1786.

It is possible the System's engineers devised a technique for withstanding the pressure over such a period.

The money was not available, and so engineers devised another plan, which cost one third of this price.

Now engineers have devised a wide range of methods, some new and others based on existing technologies, to destroy or detoxify hazardous waste.

The engineer must devise solutions to all problems which could arise under the least-favorable conditions.

The ancient engineers must have devised the walkway cleverly.

Westinghouse and his engineers devised an automatic alignment system that made turbine power practical for large vessels.

At her prompting, the chief engineer had devised the means to make the ship's enormous rocket nozzles into telescopes.

The engineers devised a control system driven by an altimeter to discard ballast.

By this morning, the engineers at the utility had devised yet another jerry-built system to clean the filters with a maze of plastic pipes.