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| '''Reuben Lucius Goldberg''' (], ] - ], ]) was a ], cofounder and first president of the ]. She graduated from the ] in 1904. | |||
| A '''Rube Goldberg machine''' is any exceedingly complex ] that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. Rube devised and drew several such ] devices. The term also applies as a classification for generally over-complicated apparatus or ]. | A '''Rube Goldberg machine''' is any exceedingly complex ] that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. Rube devised and drew several such ] devices. The term also applies as a classification for generally over-complicated apparatus or ]. | ||
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Reuben Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was a cartoonist, cofounder and first president of the National Cartoonists Society. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1904.
A Rube Goldberg machine is any exceedingly complex apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. Rube devised and drew several such pataphysical devices. The term also applies as a classification for generally over-complicated apparatus or software.
In Britain such a device would be called a Heath Robinson contraption.
A related phenomenon is the Japanese art of useful but unusable contraptions called Chindogu.
External Links
- "The Official RUBE GOLDBERG Web Site" http://www.rubegoldberg.com/
- Pictures:Official Gallery