What man-made machine had ever approached the delicacy, the beauty of the spider's web?

In cinematic and literary science fiction, when man-made machines cross from nonliving to living, this new form would be an example of non-carbon-based life.

Turner had said, were unimaginable distances; and yet they could be spanned by man-made machines to reach other worlds.

The very existence of a perpetually enduring cell is proof that biological systems don't have to rust and decay as man-made machines do.

This is the first recorded example in Great Britain of a man-made machine moving around completely under its own power.

He was pitting his own speed and stamina against that of a man-made machine.

Such a device is hard to comprehend since there is no man-made machine with all these properties.

You stand here telling me how to work a man-made machine.

The program feature some of the largest created man-made machines on earth.

It applies to all man-made machines, and potentially applies to any complex, many-parted object.