Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor, and author.
Reuben Lucius Goldberg (Rube Goldberg) was born in San Francisco. His father, a practical man, insisted he go to college to become an engineer. After graduating from University of California Berkeley, Rube went to work as an engineer with the City of San Francisco Water and Sewers Department.
He continued drawing, and after six months convinced his father that he had to work as an artist. He soon got a job as an office boy in the sports department of a San Francisco newspaper. He kept submitting drawings and cartoons to his editor, until he was finally published. An
outstanding success, he moved from San Francisco to New York drawing daily cartoons for the Evening Mail. A founding member of the National Cartoonist Society, a political cartoonist and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Rube was a beloved national figure as well as an often-quoted radio and television personality during his sixty-year professional career.
outstanding success, he moved from San Francisco to New York drawing daily cartoons for the Evening Mail. A founding member of the National Cartoonist Society, a political cartoonist and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Rube was a beloved national figure as well as an often-quoted radio and television personality during his sixty-year professional career.
Through his "INVENTIONS", Rube Goldberg discovered difficult ways to achieve easy results. His cartoons were, as he said, symbols of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results. 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.
What is a Rube Goldberg Invention?
A Rube Goldberg contraption takes a simple task and makes it extraordinarily complicated. They often included an elaborate set of arms, wheels, gears, handles, cups, and rods, put in motion by balls, canary cages, pails, boots, bathtubs, paddles, and live animals. He had solutions for How To Get The Cotton Out Of An Aspirin Bottle, imagined a Self-Operating Napkin, and created a Simple Alarm Clock – to name just a few of his hilariously depicted drawings.
What is a Rube-toon?
This is a Rube Goldberg style cartoon or "Rube-toon." See if you can follow the steps.
I have recently seen clips from "Robots" and the opening scene from "Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit" that are clearly influenced by Rube Goldberg and his cartoons. Both sequences are pretty cool. For those of you who are closer to my age, you might remember Rube influenced sequences from "Back to the Future," "Indiana Jones," or the breakfast machine from "Pee Wee's Big Adventure."
Can you name a movie that has a Rube Goldberg style machine in it?
Can you make the changes necessary to help fix the Rube Goldberg-style machine in Goldburger to Go? (pictured below)
Try completing all 30 levels of Dynamic Systems. (pictured below)
Do you want another Rube Goldberg challenge? Try Dynamic Systems 2. (pictured below)
Try to build science-related contraptions in Power Play. (pictured below)
Want another fun Rube-Goldberg style challenge? Try to create contraptions using the Magic Pen. (pictured below)
Have you mastered Magic Pen? Try Magic Pen 2. (pictured below)
Try a Rube Goldberg style mouse trap game with Tom's Trap-O-Matic. (pictured below)
Did you know that Phineas and Ferb like Rube Goldberg contraptions? Well, it's true. You can check it out for yourself by playing their Ultimate Chain Reaction! (pictured below)
Even More Rube!
Rube Goldberg Machine on Mythbusters
(Holiday Edition)
A different look at the Mythbusters Rube Goldberg Machine
A Rube That Goes Through The Whole House!
Rube Goldberg With Lots Of Fire!
A Computer Animated Rube
Pool Table Rube Goldberg
Amazing Rube Goldberg-style Music Video
Nintendo Rube Goldberg
Can you name all 6 games in the Nintendo Rube Goldberg video? I used to own each of these games for my NES in the 1980's. I'll give a pawllar to any student who can name them correctly.
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