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The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is named after cartoonist Reuben Lucius Goldberg, the spirit of whose work inspires the contest’s wacky machines. [1]
The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is named after cartoonist Reuben Lucius Goldberg, the spirit of whose work inspires the contest’s weird machines and crazy mechanism. [2]
He is best known for his series of popular cartoons depicting Rube Goldberg machines, complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. [3]
In 1938, Rube Goldberg gave up cartooning and wrote popular articles and stories but returned to editorial cartooning for the New York Sun. [4]
His cartoons combined simple machines and common household items to create complex, wacky and diabolically logical machines that accomplished mundane and trivial tasks. [1]
His cartoons combined simple machines and common household items to create complex, wacky, and diabolically logical machines that accomplished mundane and trivial tasks. [...] In 1949, at the peak of the Goldberg era, the two engineering fraternities at Purdue University, Theta Tau and Triangle, developed their own version of the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. [2]
In 1900 he graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco and in 1904, he graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. [4]
His “inventions,” drawn for our pleasure, can actually work. [2]
By inventing excessively complex ways to accomplish simple tasks, he entertained and poked fun at the gadgets designed to make life easier. [1]
The following year, he took a job with the San Francisco Bulletin, where he remained until he moved to New York City in 1907. [...] Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg (4 July 1883 ? 7 December 1970) was an American cartoonist who received a 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning. [3]
By inventing excessively complex ways to accomplish simple tasks, he entertained us and poked fun at the gadgets designed to make our lives easier. [2]
During his life, Goldberg’s drawings included sports cartoons, comic strips and political cartoons, but he is best known today for his ridiculously complex machines. [1]
In 1995, Rube Goldberg’s Inventions, depicting Professor Butts’ “Self-Operating Napkin,” was one of 20 strips included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative U.S. postage stamps. [3]
Sources: (www.purdue.edu/UNS/rube/
[1] Who is Rube Goldberg (www.anl.gov/Media_Center/Explorer/
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[3] Rube Goldberg - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg)
[4] RubeGoldberg.com (www.rube-goldberg.com)