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	Rube Goldberg - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
		Goldberg was born on the Fourth of July, in 1883.
		Goldberg became an editorial cartoonist in 1938, when The New York Sun hired him to fill that position (which, by the way, had been vacant at the Sun since 1920).
		Rube Goldberg died in 1970, revered by his peers in the cartooning community for his lifetime of extraordinary achievement.
	www.toonopedia.com /goldberg.htm (699 words)

	Comic creator: Rube Goldberg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Goldberg's sports cartoons kept growing in popularity, and in 1915 he was assigned by to create a Sunday strip which was called 'Boob McNutt'.
		Rube Goldberg was at his best and wackiest when he made his miscellany pages, such as 'Rube Goldberg's Sideshow', his last strip effort in 1939.
		At the age of 80, Goldberg embarked on a new career as a sculptor.
	lambiek.net /artists/g/goldberg_r.htm (386 words)

	Rube Goldberg Summary
		Rube Goldberg was a professional cartoonist for over 60 years, the creator of more than a dozen nationally syndicated comic strips, and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning, yet he is remembered at the end of the twentieth century chiefly for one thing—the Rube Goldberg Invention.
		Rube Goldberg Machine competitions continue to be held in high schools and colleges around America, and Purdue University has an annual National Competition for the best Goldberg variations.
		Rube Goldberg machines are often used by Tom in Tom and Jerry the cartoon.
	www.bookrags.com /Rube_Goldberg (3708 words)

	Rube Goldberg Curatorial Assistance Inc.
		Rube Goldberg: Inventions is an interactive exhibition that brings to life the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1883-1970).
		Goldberg’s cartoon inventions reflected the Machine Age ideals of progress but, in their unnecessary complexity, mocked its zeal for efficiency.
		The exhibition also presents numerous life-size Rube Goldberg inventions, twenty audio-visual interactive kiosks, fifty enlarged cartoons and animations, and original works of art by Goldberg and other world-famous artists who embraced the forces of chain reaction, kinetics, and the beauty of the absurd in their work.
	www.curatorial.org /dynamic/exhibit_display.asp?ExhibitID=28 (177 words)

	Rube Goldberg History
		Rube Goldberg's invention cartoons were largely influenced by the "machine age" at the beginning of the century and by the complex new mechanisms invented to simplify life.
		Rube Goldberg believed that most people preferred doing things the hard way instead of using a more simple and direct path to accomplish a goal.
		Rube Goldberg is a trademark of Rube Goldberg Incorporated.
	www.mousetrapcontraptions.com /history-4.html (940 words)

	Red Yak - Rube Goldberg and "The Way Things Go"
		This is because Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist in the early 20th Century who is best remembered for his comic strip "Sideshow" which featured drawings of machines that were way more complicated than they needed to be.
		Goldberg did a lot of other cartooning and even won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning, but still he will always be remembered for his many machines.
		Whether Rube Goldberg's drawings were a direct influence on Fischli and Weiss, I don't know.
	www.redyak.com /rants/Rube/rubeandthings.htm (293 words)

	ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Media: Rube Goldberg's Side Show
		Rube Goldberg was known as the "Dean of American Cartoonists".
		Rube had a knack of looking underneath the surface and discovering things that only seemed obvious after he had pointed them out with his fun-stirring pen.
		Goldberg was best known for his crazy inventions, which are featured at the bottom of each one of these "Side Show" Sunday pages.
	www.animationarchive.org /2006/10/media-rube-goldbergs-side-show.html (540 words)

	Amazon.ca: Rube Goldberg : Inventions!: Books: Maynard Frank Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rube's passion and main interest from early childhood was drawing and, at age eleven, after a great deal of persistence at wearing down his father's reservations, he began formal art lessons.
		Rube's salary was set at the very lucrative sum of $100 per month, a top wage for a just-out-of-college young engineer in 1904.
		Rube suffered through rejection after rejection of his work by the newspaper's art editor until his sports cartoons started to be published on a regular basis.
	www.amazon.ca /Rube-Goldberg-Maynard-Frank-Wolfe/dp/0684867249 (2616 words)

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		Goldberg’s work featured wildly complex and ingenious contraptions rigged to fulfill what were often trivial purposes, such as turning on a light.
		The phrase “a Rube Goldberg device” has become a part of the American lexicon, referring to anything that is unnecessarily intricate or complex.
		Rube believed that there were two ways to do things: the simple way and the hard way, and that a surprisingly number of people preferred doing things the hard way.
	www.lycos.com /info/rube-goldberg--miscellaneous.html (232 words)

	Rube Goldberg - Moviefone
		While Rube Goldberg Inc. encourages educational, non-profit, and commercial reprint and use of Rube's work, permission to reproduce drawings and images or...
		The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is sponsored by the Theta Tau Educational...
		Rube Goldberg devices frequently appear in the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet,...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/rube-goldberg/183426/main (114 words)

	Rube Goldberg Online
		Rube Goldberg at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. Interview from the Oral History project
		Search AllPosters for reproductions of works by Rube Goldberg
		All images and text on this Rube Goldberg page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/goldberg_rube.html (195 words)

	Rube Goldberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reuben Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) was a Jewish American cartoonist who earned lasting fame for his "Rube Goldberg machines"; exceedingly complex devices that perform simple tasks in very indirect and convoluted ways.
		According to Newsday, Rube Goldberg was an Asharoken, New York resident, and in 1953 designed what became the village seal with a portrait of Chief Asharoken.
		Despite his success in his main career and his efforts to create a supportive community, Goldberg dismissed the idea of comics as a form of art with open contempt such as when he angrily dismissed comic book master Will Eisner's appreciation of the concept in conversation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rube_Goldberg (731 words)

	Rube Goldberg Project
		Rube Goldberg is actually a great cartoonist who drew to entertain America with his silly little machines.
		Rube Goldberg's cartoon contraptions were made complex to perform basic things.
		Rube Goldberg is the ® and © of Rube Goldberg Inc.
	schools.lwsd.org /RHJH/genyes/RubeGoldberg (162 words)

	UT Feature Story -- Engineering Whimsy: Annual Rube Goldberg machine contest produces bizarre contraptions and lifelong ...
		Rube 1997, with just six official team members, “was the quick and clean machine.” Designed to load and play a CD, it took first place in the nationals, as did the following year’s larger, more complex contrivance to turn off an alarm clock.
		Stambaugh cites among the benefits he gained from Rube: wood-, metal- and plastic-working skills, knowledge of adhesive agents and project experience with a core group of five or six team members who operated by consensus like a board of directors.
		He also remembers the aerospace engineers’; ill-fated 1996 machine: “It’s ironic to say this, since we’re talking about Rube, but it was much too complicated!” Linehan values the friends he made during his years of working on Rube, and keeps in touch with many of them—including one from mechanical engineering, Chad Bruns.
	www.utexas.edu /features/archive/2003/rube.html (1930 words)

	Amazon.fr : Rube Goldberg: Inventions: Livres en anglais: Maynard Frank Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rube Goldberg is so renowned for his zany and splendidly overcomplicated "inventions" that his name has made it into dictionaries as an adjective.
		For more than sixty-five years, Rube Goldberg's syndicated cartoons -- he produced more than fifty strips -- appeared in as many as a thousand newspapers annually He was earning a hundred thousand dollars a year...in 1915.
		He even, at the age of eighty, began an entirely new career as a sculptor, and, in inimitable Goldberg fashion, was soon selling his work to galleries, collectors, and museums all over the world.
	www.amazon.fr /Rube-Goldberg-Maynard-Frank-Wolfe/dp/0684867249 (716 words)

	Theta Tau Fraternity for Engineers - Rube Goldberg Contest
		The task for the 2006 Theta Tau Rube Goldberg Machine Contest (RGMC) is to cut or shred into strips 5 sheets of 8 1/2" x 11" 20lb paper individually with a shredder in 20 or more steps.
		A typical Rube Goldberg machine could not perform a job as straightforward as, say, turning on a faucet without bowling balls that trigger pulleys, swinging boots that kick into switches, and turntables that run on mouse power.
		The Theta Tau Rube Contest is a competition in which teams of engineering students compete to design and build incredibly complicated, multi-stage machines to accomplish a simple task.
	www.engr.utexas.edu /thetatau/rube (742 words)

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		Rube Goldberg is justly famous for producing ingenious cartoons that show the most complicated ways imaginable to complete the most mundane of tasks.
		The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest pays homage to the late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing whimsical machines with complex mechanisms to perform simple tasks.
		Reuben Lucius Goldberg (Rube Goldberg) was born in San Francisco.
	www.lycos.com /info/rube-goldberg.html (360 words)

	Rube Goldberg WebQuest (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist, a sculptor, and an author.
		Your task will be to learn about simple machines, Rube Goldberg, and to create your own machine that will accomplish a simple task of your choosing.
		You will find lots of links relating to Rube Goldberg and his inventions at the bottom of my invention page.
	www.mindspring.com /~ronniehartman/rube_goldberg_webquest.htm (221 words)

	Rube Goldberg machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During a special holiday episode of Mythbusters that aired December 6, 2006, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman created a Rube Goldberg machine.
		A segment of Jackass: The Movie known as "The Failed Ending" is described by Johnny Knoxville as "The Rube Goldberg Test".
		The scene involved each main cast member attempting to operate some kind of contraption which triggered the next part of the sequence, including Wee Man sliding down a giant Plinko wall and Dave England dressed as a giant penis skateboarding down a ramp chased by several bowling balls and crashing into a giant vagina.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine (1159 words)

	Lab Notes: Research from the Berkeley College of Engineering
		Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, pictured here as a young man, made his mark by making light of the very discipline he studied.
		Cartoonist Rube Goldberg's absurdly complex mechanisms for achieving easy results are so ingrained in popular culture that the artist/engineer's name appears in the dictionary as an adjective.
		Perhaps the legacy that would have most delighted Goldberg though are the multitude of high school and college courses and contests around the world bearing his name and his sense of engineering for the fun of it.
	www.coe.berkeley.edu /labnotes/0102history.html (463 words)

	Rube Goldberg-style Java Security Tools
		One may be impressed by all of the gewgaws, doodads, and whim-whams on display, but in the end it would be wise not to rely on them for security.
		Finjan has built a failed Rube Goldberg machine to catch sand with a fishing net - a few grains may be contrived to stick to the net, but the bulk of the sand will flow through unimpeded.
		Finjan has built a Rube Goldberg machine to stop elephants with twine - with enough twine and luck you might succeed in stopping a few, but most will simply march right through.
	www.cigital.com /hostile-applets/rube.html (3806 words)

	Simple Machines Webquest (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rube doesn't have much time until his next cartoon is due so he is asking that each kid in your team of 3 children specialize.
		Research the type of cartoons that Rube Goldberg makes and begin to think of a machine that could help Rube regain his sense of creativity.
		You will know who Rube Goldberg was and how he used simple machines to invent new machines.
	www.jsd.k12.ak.us /ab/el/simplemachines.html (760 words)

	Rube Goldberg Machine Ideas by Jacob Shwirtz
		The purpose of a Rube Goldberg Machine is to build the most complicated machine possible to perform a simple everyday task.
		"We're not too worried, except about him," one Rube Goldberg participant said, nodding in the direction of Jacob Shwirtz, who was tinkering with his own project several feet away.
		Jacob Shwirtz had won first prize in the Rube Goldberg Division once before, afterbuilding and impressive structure that featured colorful intricacies like a small electric car that would carry a ball down a ramp and drop it down a chute.
	www.jacobshwirtz.com /RubeGoldberg (1274 words)

	Amazing Rube Goldberg Contraptions and Invention Convention
		Today, the term Rube Goldberg is used to signify anything done in an overly compicated or round-about manner.
		Rube Goldberg's cartoons are incredible displays of ingenuity, detailed logic, physics and satire.
		Rube Goldberg is a trademark of Rube Goldberg Incorporated.
	www.mousetrapcontraptions.com (263 words)

	Rube Goldberg Activities
		In our classroom we investigated the life of Rube Goldberg.
		They were asked to think of a simple task and make it more difficult using at least ten steps.
		Rube Goldberg Activities Link (drawings and descriptions of children’s work).
	www.fi.edu /htlc/teachers/daskilewicz/rubegold.htm (270 words)

	Purdue News Service
		Inspired by cartoonist Rube Goldberg, college students nationwide compete to design a machine that uses the most complex process to complete a simple task - put a stamp on an envelope, screw in a light bulb, make a cup of coffee - in 20 or more steps.
		The 2007 task is to make juice from an orange and then poor the juice from a pitcher into a cup in 20 steps or more.
		The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers continued their streak, winning for the third year in a row and claiming the People's Choice award for the second consecutive year.
	news.uns.purdue.edu /UNS/rube/rube.index.html (335 words)

	Rube Machine Contest
		Educators: The concept of a Rube Goldberg machine is an excellent educational tool.
		If your school or a school near you is not on this list and you are interested in starting a contest, send an e-mail to the Chairman.
		The Theta Tau Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is a contest for college teams, but there are several groups that host contests for high school students in their area.
	www.rubemachine.com (449 words)

	Rube Goldberg Machine Contests
		To be held on a Satuday, March 22, 2008, at the Chicago Children's Museum on Navy Pier.
		2008 Argonne Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for High Schools
		2007 Engineering Open House Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for High Schools
	www.anl.gov /Careers/Education/rube (295 words)

	Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
		Insolite — The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest brings the ideas of Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rube Goldberg's "Invention"; cartoons to life:
		Rube Goldberg drew his "Inventions"; as contraptions that satirized the new technology and gadgets of the day.
		His drawings, using simple machines and household items already in use, were incredibly complex and wacky, but somehow (perhaps it was because Rube was a graduate engineer) the "Inventions"; always had an ingenious, logical progression as they worked to finish their task.
	www.semiologic.com /2005/04/12/rube-goldberg-machine-contest (153 words)

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