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Thu, 16 Aug 2007
Most people have heard of a Rube Goldberg device, but most probably don't know who the man was. Rube was not an inventor, he was a cartoonist whose pictures of insanely complicated devices for accomplishing mundane tasks were popular in the early 20th century. He was a bay area guy, hailing from SF and trained as an engineer at UC Berkeley.
He drew lots of comics for different publications until he finally came up with a character called Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts who created the absurd contraptions of which Goldberg is best know for.
The video I've embedded above is from a Japanese TV show that created a bunch of Goldberg-style devices and set them in motion. Enjoy!
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