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Rube Goldberg Inventions
Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist,
sculptor, and author. Rube Goldberg was born in San Francisco. His father
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 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.
Rube Goldberg was a founding member of the National Cartoonist Society,
a political cartoonist and a Pulitzer Prize winner.
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.
Rube's drawings depict absurdly connected machines functioning in
extremely complex and roundabout ways to produce a simple end result;
because of this Rube Goldberg has become associated with any convoluted
system of achieving a basic task.
Rube's inventions are a unique commentary on life's complexities.
They provide a humorous diversion into the absurd that lampoons the
wonders of technology. Rube's hilarious send-ups of man's ingenuity
strike a deep and lasting chord with today's audience through caught
in a high-tech revolution are still seeking simplicity.
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