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	William Heath Robinson Biography
		William Heath Robinson was the younger brother of Charles and Thomas Heath Robinson.
		Heath Robinson, having studied art at the Islington School of Art and sporadically at the Painting Schools of the Royal Academy, truly wished to make a living as a landscape painter.
		Robinson was capable of fancy, but fantasy itself seems to have been a stretch for him.
	www.bpib.com /illustrat/whrobin.htm (1639 words)

	W. Heath Robinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Heath Robinson (May 31, 1872–September 13, 1944) was a British cartoonist and illustrator, who signed himself W.
		Robinson's cartoons were so popular, that even to this day in Britain, the name "Heath Robinson" is used as shorthand for an improbable, rickety machine barely kept going by incessant tinkering.
		One of the automatic analysis machines built for Bletchley Park during World War II to assist in the decryption of German message traffic was named "Heath Robinson" in his honour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heath_Robinson (388 words)

	Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
		Robinson once told a reader who confessed to being confused about his poetry that he should read the poems one word at a time.
		Robinson was very sensitive to the sound of words and complained of not liking his name because it sounded like a tin can being kicked down the stairs.
		Robinson is one of America's greatest practitioners of the sonnet and the dramatic monologue.
	www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/robinson.html (788 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the wonderful imagination of William Heath Robinson, household bits and bobs are used to create fanciful contraptions operated by intensely serious workmen overseen by bowler hatted bosses.
		A "Heath Robinson contraption" is of such fantastically impractical design that it is unlikely to work.
		Heath Robinson Inventions is published in hardback by Duckworth at £12.95.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=63216 (351 words)

	Heath Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Heath Robinson 1067871213 1067986800 London Gran Bretagna Isabel Evans http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk info@dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk 1067871213.jpg 1074466799 o Dulwich Picture Gallery Heath Robinson In the 1930s William Heath Robinson (1872 - 1944) was known as "The Gadget King" and he is still most widely remembered for his wonderful humorous drawings.
		The Trust was established to conserve and exhibit the works of William Heath Robinson made by his daughter, Joan Brinsmead and is working with the Pinner Association and Harrow Council to raise funds for a Heath Robinson museum in Pinner.
		A Trustee of the William Heath Robinson Trust, Geoffrey Beare is also Chairman of the Imaginative Book Illustration Society (IBIS) and an authority on the work of William Heath Robinson, which he has been collecting since 1971.
	www.undo.net /artinpress/1067986800.1067871213.html (484 words)

	Encyclopedia: Heath Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Heath Robinson (May 31, 1872 - September 13, 1944) was a British cartoonist and illustrator, who signed himself W.
		Robinson's cartoons were so popular, that even to this day in Britain, the name "Heath Robinson" is applied as a shorthand for an improbable, rickety machine barely kept going by incessant tinkering.
		One of the automatic analysis machines built for Bletchley Park during World War II to assist in the decryption of German message traffic, including the Enigma machine, was named "Heath Robinson" in his honour.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Heath-Robinson (415 words)

	Robinson Heath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nuclear Utilisation Technology Centre at Robinson Heath is a fictional United Kingdom government research facility featured in the work of David Langford, most notably the novel The Leaky Establishment.
		It is based largely on his own experience at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston Heath, Berkshire.
		The name is a play on the artist Heath Robinson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robinson_Heath (84 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Why Heath Robinson had to redraw his future
		It is as if Heath Robinson was too nice for satire: he gazed at life from his secure suburban home, seeing it sharply but always reluctant to be cruel.
		In Heath Robinson's case, they reveal how his early career marked him out as a traditional book illustrator to be mentioned in the same breath as Dulac and Rackham.
		The fun of the series "How to Live in a Flat", for example, comes from the fertility of Heath Robinson's mind: his vision of tubular furniture that serves many purposes, or of the rucksacked walkers marching briskly round a tiny roof, or the couple kissing, delicately perched on their balconies.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/11/12/baheath12.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/11/12/ixartright.html (561 words)

	Charles Robinson Biography
		Robinson's grandfather had made a living by engraving the drawings of other artists onto wood so that the resulting blocks could be incorporated with the metal type to be inked and pressed against paper to make multiple copies of newspapers, magazines and books.
		Many of Robinson's early efforts were enhanced by the effective application of mechanical tones (grays) and an additional color.
		Charles Robinson was obviously enthralled with the idea of the "gift book." Rather than drawing and painting pictures to put alongside an author's text, Robinson approached the task as creating a book that was a gift - with the illustrated equivilent of colorful wrappings and shiny ribbons.
	www.bpib.com /illustrat/robinson.htm (1403 words)

	Heath Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), ‘The Gadget King’, is best known and loved for his humorous drawings and his absurdly ingenious contraptions.
		The Trust was established to conserve and exhibit the collection of the works of William Heath Robinson made by his daughter, Joan Brinsmead.
		In the complete works of Shakespeare Heath Robinson was presented with subjects ranging from bawdy comedy to high drama, and from tender romance to brutal violence.
	www.harrowarts.com /heath_robinson (592 words)

	The William Heath Robinson Trust
		In the 1930s Heath Robinson was known as "The Gadget King" and he is still most widely remembered for his wonderful humorous drawings.
		The young Heath Robinson, who had just become the father of a baby girl, had quickly to find a new source of income.
		His importance, as an innovator in the fields of illustration and advertising, and perhaps more importantly as the heir of Rowlandson and Cruikshank in the British humorous tradition, has yet to be fully appreciated, and his work is poorly represented in public collections.
	www.heathrobinson.org /about.htm (337 words)

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		The William Heath Robinson Trust has been established to conserve and exhibit the collection of the works of William Heath Robinson made by his daughter, Joan Brinsmead.
		Heath Robinson lived in Pinner for a number of years and did much of his best work there, so it would be a fitting home for the collection.
		To mark the 50th anniversary of Heath Robinson's death in September 1994, the Trustees mounted an inaugural exhibition of the Trust's collection in Christie's premises in King St, St James's.
	www.heathrobinson.org (411 words)

	A.Word.A.Day -- Heath Robinson
		The term was coined after W. Heath Robinson (1872-1944), a British artist known for drawing ingeniously complicated devices.
		The fiction that comes to mind here is a Heath Robinson contraption, or one devised by his US counterpart, Rube Goldberg.
		Several devices of a Heath Robinson nature are suggested - boards to deflect the trajectory of urine and droppings, flashing lights, ultra-sound, unpleasant smells, stuffed owls, rustling aluminium foil and helium-filled balloons." Bat Raves; The Economist (London, UK); Jan 23, 1999.
	wordsmith.org /words/heath_robinson.html (198 words)

	Heath Robinson Exhibition \| Walker Art Gallery
		Heath Robinson looks at different aspects of the artist's talents - from delightful children's book illustrations to drawings of crazy machines.
		Robinson created inimitable illustrations for poetry by Poe and Kipling, Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Midsummer Night's Dream, de la Mare's Peacock Pie, The Water Babies and Perrault's Fairy Tales.
		The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the William Heath Robinson Trust - most of the artworks are from the Trust's collection.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /walker/exhibitions/heathrobinson (280 words)

	W Heath Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Heath Robinson's grandfather, uncle and father worked in the printing trade, either drawing or preparing engravings for publication.
		Heath Robinson's work was published in weekly magazines where he soon gained a reputation for creating humorous drawings of mechanical processes — the simpler the task, the more complicated and redundant the machinery.
		Branestawm by Norman Hunter was published in 1933, with illustrations by Heath Robinson.
	homepage.mac.com /koromo/Wine/Heath/HeathRob.html (247 words)

	The Colossus - Tony Sale
		There is now a description of Heath Robinson which you can view.
		There were problems with Heath Robinson keeping two paper tapes in synchrony at 1,000 characters per second.
		Heath Robinson worked well enough to show that Max Newman's concept was correct.
	www.codesandciphers.org.uk /lorenz/colossus.htm (2712 words)

	Bill the Minder Written and Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. - ROBINSON, W. HEATH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ROBINSON, W. Bill the Minder Written and Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
		The story is a simple tale or a series of tales about the wanderings of the King of Troy and a boot-cleaner called Bill, who became the Minder (today he would be called a baby-sitter) to the bad-tempered family of a bad-tempered mushroom-gatherer named Crispin.
		Like most of Heath Robinson’s characters, Bill was a solemn little person who took his minding very seriously, even to the extent of studying at the British Museum and in the Minding Room of the Patents Museum at South Kensington.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/her/49204.shtml (357 words)

	BBC - History - William Heath Robinson (1872 - 1944)
		As a child Robinson had a vivid imagination, indulging in pantomimes and other games of make believe.
		However, the artist was not pleased to be pigeonholed as simply a cartoonist, particularly as this categorisation intensified in the public's mind - he took his other work just as seriously, and wanted to extend his repertoire further.
		During World War One, Heath Robinson produced many gently satirical cartoons, which proved popular with officers and soldiers alike, many of whom wrote to him, suggesting ways of dealing with the Germans.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/robinson_william_heath.shtml (386 words)

	The Rebuild of Heath Robinson
		Harry, who was a GPO engineer at Dollis Hill, had worked on Heath Robinson and then on the Mk 1 and Mk 2 Colossi.
		I showed this to Harry who agreed that the Heath Robinson first stages of the counters were like that.
		The Heath Robinson bedstead was later used on Colossus so they were the same dimensions and construction.
	www.codesandciphers.org.uk /virtualbp/hrob/hrrbld06.htm (1451 words)

	HEATH ROBINSON EXHIBITION, 'The Gadget King' at Walker Art Gallery
		Heath Robinson looks at different aspects of the artist's talents – from delightful children's book illustrations to drawings of crazy machines.
		Today Robinson is still most widely remembered for his wonderful humorous drawings.
		The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the William Heath Robinson Trust – most of the artworks are from the Trust's collection.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /about/news/newsarticle.asp?id=405&venue=0 (269 words)

	RA :: WINTER 2003 :: Heath Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I wasn’t aware of Heath Robinson as an artist until very late on – late teens, early twenties – and I didn’t know of his work illustrating books.
		It’s when Heath Robinson comes into his cartoon drawings of contraptions that he stands out.
		The images don’t have a kind of electric, jump-off-the-page energy, and Heath Robinson is not really standing in judgement of particular people in the same way I am.
	www.ramagazine.org.uk /index.php?pid=90 (381 words)

	William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The illustrator and inventor of the epynomous machines W. Heath Robinson was born in London into an artistic family - his father was the illustrator and engraver Thomas Robinson, and his older brother was the prolific illustrator and painter Charles Robinson RI.
		Heath Robinson started his artistic pursuits by drawing in the British Museum, then spent three years in the Royal Academy Schools - time wasted in his own opinion - and then became a book illustrator.
		The contraptions designed by Heath Robinson still surface in art galleries and other venues.
	www.speel.demon.co.uk /artists2/whrbnsn.htm (166 words)

	The Heath Robinson Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Heath Robinson is also related to the Brinsmeads through his marriage, in 1903 to Josephine Latey, the daughter of John Latey (1842-1902).
		Thus, Anne Emily Latey (nee Brinsmead) was William Heath Robinson's sister-in-law.
		The William Heath Robinson trust has entered into a partnership with the Pinner Association to promote the restoration of West House, Pinner to be used as a museum for his work.
	www.brinsmead.net /HeathRob.htm (354 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: William Heath Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) dreamed of a romantic life as an itinerant landscape painter.
		Although his name is now synonymous with any complicated, ramshackle mechanical apparatus for doing something relatively simple, the true Heath Robinson contraption was thought out with a child's solemn logic, executed with a craftsman's care, and accompanied by the ultimate in deadpan captions.
		In this first full account of William Heath Robinson's life and work, James Hamilton draws on the Robinson family archives to explore the personality of this convivial family man and deeply serious artist.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857936043 (324 words)

	It's All A Bit Heath Robinson At Dulwich Picture Gallery - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
		The basis of the exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery though, is that Heath Robinson was far more than "The Gadget King", the inventor of comical drawings of fantastic machines for which he is still widely known.
		For decades Robinson was ranked alongside Arthur Rackham and Aubrey Beardsley, as one of Britain’s foremost literary illustrators.
		Had Heath Robinson been born maybe thirty years earlier, he probably could have lived his life without ever having to become a commercial artist.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /exh_gfx_en/ART18617.html (783 words)

	Holburne Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Heath Robinson could not afford to pursue his ambition to become a landscape artist and turned instead to the more economically reliable work of book illustration where his reputation was quickly established.
		At the time of his death in 1944 he was remembered by only a small number of people for his serious illustrations because of the huge success and popularity of his humorous cartoons and contraptions.
		This exhibition offers the opportunity to see original drawings and paintings, including previously unseen illustrations for the complete Works of Shakespeare, from the collection of the William Heath Robinson Trust, which was established to conserve and exhibit Heath Robinson's work.
	www.bath.ac.uk /Holburne/heath-robinson (648 words)

	Heath Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Heath Robinson, (1872-1944), British cartoonist and illustrator, who signed himself W. Heath Robinson.
		In the course of this however, he wrote and illustrated two childrens'; books, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902), and Bill the Minder (1912); these are regarded as the start of his career in the depiction of unlikely machines.
		It uses material from the wikipedia article Heath Robinson.
	www.eurofreehost.com /he/Heath_Robinson.html (336 words)

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