Essays Tagged: "Rube Goldberg machine"

Rube Goldberg

A Rube Goldberg machine is any exceedingly complex apparatus designed to serve a specific function tha ... o serve a specific function that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. Rube devised and drew severalsuch pataphysical devices. The best examples of his machines have an an ... The Ideal Novelty and Toy Company released a board game called Mouse Trap in 1963 that was based onRube Goldberg's ideas. (This game is currently being made by Hasbro.) Rube's machines are often feat ...

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