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	Rube Goldberg Machine Contest background
		In his words, the machines were a "symbol of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results." He believed that most people preferred doing things the hard way instead of using simpler, more direct path s to accomplish goals.
		Rube Goldberg Machine Contests bring Goldberg's cartoons to life in a way that pulls students away from traditional ways of looking at problems and sends them spinning into the intuitive, chaotic realm of imagination.
		A good Rube Goldberg machine incorporates the everyday machines people are used to seeing and connects them in ways that may seem idiotic or ingenious.
	www.anl.gov /Careers/Education/rube/rube.html (1483 words)

	Rube Goldberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Goldberg took a job with the New York Sun in 1938 as a political cartoonist, and was successful in this endeavor as well; he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948.
		Rube's machines are often featured on television or in movies, too, for their ingenious nature and pure craziness.
		In the 7th season X-Files episode "The Goldberg Variation" Mulder and Sculley meet a man who has a great amount of good luck that manifests as a sort of Rube Goldberg device, with improbable events combining to effect a certain outcome.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rube_Goldberg (1589 words)

	Leo Goldberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Goldberg und Umgebung Chronik und Stadtansichten von Goldberg sowie Tipps zu Ausflugszielen in der Umgebung.
		Rube Goldberg Machine This Rube Goldberg Machine will turn on a blue-light thereby revealing a hidden message in 47 steps.
		Purdue University Contest Rube Goldberg contest whose winner competes at the national contest.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Leo_Goldberg.html (207 words)

	Rube Goldberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The problem solving team had to create a Rube Goldberg device that would knock down a cup and a golf ball after someone blew into a straw, but the rules...
		Reuben Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was a cartoonist, cofounder and first president of the National Cartoonists Society.
		His machines are often featured on television or in movies, too, for their ingenious nature and pure craziness.
	www.wikiverse.org /rube-goldberg (635 words)

	Clip: Xbox 360 Rube Goldberg Machine
		Rube Goldberg machines are not supposed to be practical.
		BY WOLFKIN AT "Rube Goldberg machines are not supposed to be practical.
		Rube Goldberg machines are supposed to be more non-sensical, not so much impractical.
	kotaku.com /gaming/clip/xbox-360-rube-goldberg-machine-274088.php (1104 words)

	UWM CEAS Rube Goldberg Machine Contest - What is Rube Goldberg? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A successful Rube Goldberg machine (one that is competitive in Rube Goldberg Machine Contests), combines a number of objective and subjective qualities that fulfills tasks, follows rules and impress judges.
		On many machines, it's hard to follow all the steps.
		Judges appreciate machines that are laid out so that as many steps as possible are clearly visible in sequence.
	license.cae.uwm.edu /rube/rubeMakingMachine.asp (340 words)

	Purdue team wins Rube Goldberg national election
		Some of the winning machine's steps included a ball levitating on a stream of air from a vacuum cleaner, toy football players and gorillas batting at balls, and water turning a tiny waterwheel, before a conveyor belt finally delivered the ballot to its box.
		The national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest was organized by the Phi Chapter of Theta Tau Fraternity at Purdue.
		The student-built machines are judged on completion of the task, creativity, the number of steps involved and how well they embrace the Rube Goldberg spirit.
	www.purdue.edu /UNS/html4ever/2004/040403.Rube.national04.html (1009 words)

	Discover: Rubes in training - National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
		Rube Goldberg, as you know if you ever opened a Sunday comics section during the first two-thirds of this century, was a cartoonist who became famous for drawing fantastically complicated machines that performed fantastically simple tasks.
		In Goldberg's era, however, things were simpler, and by the time the cartoonist retired, the term Rube Goldbergian had been enshrined in the language to describe anything characterized by excess complexity.
		At a glance, Milwaukee's machine was an absolutely incomprehensible array of pulleys, rails, cables, and tracks, as well as what appeared to be a collection of every stuffed animal or doll manufactured in the United States in the last 20 years, from Buzzy to Bee to Oscar the Grouch to Oscar the Clinically Depressed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n8_v14/ai_14655998 (1248 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Rube Goldberg Devices
		Rube Goldberg was the inventor of many comics features — Lunatics I Have Met, Foolish Questions, The Candy Kid and others, in addition to his …
		Goldberg, an engineering major, was thinking of Slate's improbable mass of quasi-identifiable parts when he drew his "Automatic Weight Reducing Machine" in 1914, for The New York Evening Mail.
		Goldberg did a wide variety of newspaper cartooning in his long career, from sports to political cartoons.
	www.toonopedia.com /devices.htm (469 words)

	Cool Rube Goldberg Machines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Several weeks were spent on each machine, from designing them on paper, to building the prototypes (used up a lot of tape and pizza boxes!), to the end results: a crazy, but sturdy, machine of wood.
		Rube's bus hits a rubber ball on a platform, dropping the ball into a large red funnel.
		The goal of the 1999 Rube Goldberg contest at the Museum of Scientific Discovery, Harrisburg, PA was to build a machine (with at least 10 steps) to put coins into a bank.
	www.geocities.com /contraptions/cool-machines-3.html (564 words)

	Rube Goldberg Activity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The objective of this machine was to prepare a bowl of cereal for breakfast.
		This machine worked so well, that it was used by his family to prepare a bowl of Fruit Loops for a period of time.
		A Rube Goldberg machine is a simple machine apparatus used to perform a certain task.
	www.usoe.k12.ut.us /curr/science/sciber00/8th/machines/sciber/rube.htm (532 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.
		Machines will be required to remove two batteries from a flashlight, replace them and turn on the flashlight in a minimum of 20 steps.
		A machine built by the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers employed an outer-space theme and used steps that incorporated a bouncing water balloon, a fireman action figure fleeing a fire and weights attached to a spinning bicycle wheel to win the 22nd annual locall and the 18th national Purdue Rube Goldberg Machine Contests.
	news.uns.purdue.edu /rube/rube.index.html (267 words)

	Rube Goldberg winner lights up inefficiency contest
		• A machine designed and built by members of the Purdue chapter of the Society of Professional Engineers takes more than 100 steps to change the batteries in a flashlight and turn on the flashlight during the 22nd annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.
		A machine built by the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers employed an outer-space theme and used steps that incorporated a bouncing water balloon, a fireman action figure fleeing a fire and weights attached to a spinning bicycle wheel to win the 22nd annual Purdue Rube Goldberg Machine Contest today (March 5).
		Shawn Jordan of Fort Wayne, Ind. (left) and Andy Mehl of Goshen, Ind., teammates on the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team, react as their machine is put to the test during the 22nd annual Purdue Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Saturday (March 5) at Purdue's West Lafayette campus.
	news.uns.purdue.edu /UNS/html4ever/2005/050305.Rube05.localwin.html (1240 words)

	Judges cast ballots for election-themed Rube Goldberg machine
		Some of the machine's steps included a ball levitating on a stream of air from a vacuum cleaner, toy football players and gorillas batting at balls, and water turning a tiny waterwheel, before a conveyor belt finally delivered the ballot to its box.
		In previous contests, students' machines have been required to select, clean and peel an apple; make a cup of coffee; toast a piece of bread; put a stamp on an envelope; and drop a penny into a piggy bank.
		Teams in the contest had to build machines that used a minimum of 20 steps to cast a ballot using principles of engineering and physics.
	www.purdue.edu /UNS/html4ever/2004/040228.Rube.Local.html (1104 words)

	Purdue's Rube Goldberg machine premiers at children's museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Goldberg was known for his wacky and whimsical depictions of how to complete a simple task using everyday items in as complicated a process as possible.
		Each year, in his honor, the regional and national Rube Goldberg contests take place at Purdue and are organized and sponsored by the College of Engineering and Linda Katehi, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering.
		The overall theme of the competitions is to construct a machine using at least 20 steps to perform a simple task.
	news.uns.purdue.edu /UNS/html3month/2005/050825.Rube.museum.html (306 words)

	UT Feature Story -- Engineering Whimsy: Annual Rube Goldberg machine contest produces bizarre contraptions and lifelong ...
		The late artist/engineer Rube Goldberg’s cure for oversleeping.
		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.
		The IEEE team with their winning machine, “Liability Land,” which took first place in the university’s 2003 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.
	www.utexas.edu /features/archive/2003/rube.html (1930 words)

	Amazing Rube Goldberg Contraptions and Invention Convention
		Rube Goldberg was an artist, inventor, engineer, author and sculptor.
		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 Machine Contests
		To be held on a Satuday, yet to be determined, in the spring at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
		Six Illlinois high school teams will compete to be named the state's best at building the zaniest machine that takes 10 or more steps to take a whole orange, juice it, and pour the juice from a pitcher into a cup.
		In cooperation with the Theta Tau Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, the Chicago Children's Museum, and Rube Goldberg, Inc.
	www.anl.gov /Careers/Education/rube (281 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His inventions became so widely known that Webster's Dictionary added "rube goldberg" to its listing, defining it as "accomplishing by extremely complex, roundabout means what seemingly could be done simply." 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.
		This means that the operating machine shall fit and remain completely within an imaginary box whose overall internal volume is 27 cubic feet or less and whose maximum internal linear dimension is 5 feet or less.
		Each step shall be marked on the machine and a written summary of each step shall be provided to the RGMC officials at the registration table on the day of the contest, and a copy of that summary must remain with the machine at all times.
	www.westinghousenuclear.com /pdf/E6_Handbook.doc (2600 words)

	Rube Goldberg machines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is a single system composed of several interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, and where the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to cease functioning.
		The name of Rube Goldberg-the great cartoonist who entertained America with his silly machines lives on in our culture, although the man himself has pretty much faded from view.
		I was introduced to the notion of a Rube Goldberg machine as a kid watching Saturday morning cartoons.
	www.intelligentdesign.org /behe/index.htm (839 words)

	Rube Goldberg Machine Contest Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The machine must be able to complete its cycle in less than nine minutes.
		The number of members on a team is not restricted, however, only two team members may interact with the machine once the contest has begun.
		The machine must be safe to the approval of the RGMC officials.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~thetatau/rube/rules.html (421 words)

	National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest Unfurls On April 6
		The student-built machines will be judged on completion of the task, creativity, the number of steps involved and how well they embrace the Rube Goldberg spirit.
		Their "Mission to Mars" machine hoisted the U.S. flag over a simulated mini-Martian landscape to the strains of "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and Lenny Kravitz's rocker "Fly Away" to win the local competition at Purdue on Saturday, Feb. 9.
		The machine employed items such as a rocket-activated pump, a bicycle-crank arm that launched an air rocket and a teeter-totter, which docked with an International Space Station.
	www.mail-archive.com /nbhl@purdue.edu/msg00001.html (537 words)

	Contest challenges teens to make it the hard way - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for many newspapers, who believed that there were two ways of doing something - the easy way and the hard way.
		There are quite a few Rube Goldberg machine contests, but almost all of them are at the college level, for engineering fraternities and such.
		A team from Conemaugh Township High School won handily with a machine that was activated by a series of golf balls falling on levers, and ended with toilet brushes scrubbing the shoe.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/search/s_168194.html (583 words)

	Rube Goldberg WebQuest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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)

	MD-Times.com - Nathan Flatt tests his mechanical mettle at Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
		The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest held at Purdue Armory, West Lafayette, is named after and inspired by Reuben Lucius Goldberg’s invention cartoons.
		Rube Goldberg, Inc., does not provide contestants with any formulas or plans for designing their machines.
		He is a resident assistant at Purdue, and after winning the local contest, he is helping the Rube team get their machine ready for the national.
	www.md-times.com /?module=displaystory&story_id=7989&format=html (862 words)

	Natalie Goldberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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		Creative writing practice courses Nita Sweeney offers classes in Columbus, Ohio, based on many years of study with best-selling auther, Natalie Goldberg.
		Goldberg Posters Whoopi Goldberg Posters Goldberg, Mark Lee Posters Daniel Goldberg Posters Eric Goldberg Posters Goldberg, Mark Posters Natalie Desselle Posters Natalie Schafer Posters Natalie Raitano Posters Levine, Natalie Posters Natalie Wood Posters Natalie Portman Posters Armstrong, Natalie Posters Savard, Natalie Posters Arnold, Natalie Posters
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Natalie_Goldberg.html (278 words)

	Rube Goldberg Machine Contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest held at Purdue University in Indiana is organized by the Phi Chapter of Theta Tau, the National Student Engineering Organization.
		The task is accomplished in true Rube Goldberg fashion by burning a waffle in a toaster, which sets off a smoke alarm, which activates a microphone, which then starts a small electronic motor, which...well, you get the idea.
		Rube Goldberg Inc. licenses the educational and noncommercial use of its art, trademarks, and other intellectual property to schools and organizations for class assignment as well as to those groups that want to organize Rube Goldberg Machine Contests in their area.
	www.rube-goldberg.com /html/contest.htm (850 words)

	Rube Goldberg Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rube's audience spans generations, from adults well experienced in the promises and pitfalls of modern technology to younger fans who are intrigued by the creativity and possibility of invention.
		All copyright and reproduction rights are the property of Rube Goldberg Inc. Rube Goldberg is a registered trademark of Rube Goldberg Inc. who holds the Rube Goldberg copyrights and trademarks.
		While Rube Goldberg Inc. encourages educational, non-profit, and commercial reprint and use of Rube's work, permission to reproduce drawings and images or use our trademark (RUBE GOLDBERG) in any way or in any media (including presentations, training materials, etc. both in-house and to clients), must be secured prior to use and requested in writing.
	www.rube-goldberg.com /html/gallery.htm (228 words)

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