The appeal of Rube Goldberg

Robert P. Crease

doi:10.1088/2058-7058/18/6/24

The appeal of Rube Goldberg

Robert P. Crease

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A brief life-sketch of famous American cartoonist, Reuben 'Rube' Goldberg is presented. Goldberg was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1883. Goldberg is so well known in the US that he even features in Webster's Dictionary, which defines 'Rube Goldberg' as an adjective 'designating any very complicated invention, machine, scheme, etc laboriously contrived to perform a seemingly simple operation'. Besides cartooning, Goldberg wrote song lyrics, devised games, sculpted and appeared in films and on radio and TV. In 1948, and editorial cartoon about the atomic bomb even earned him a Pulitzer Prize. He died in 1970, but his influence in the arts lives on.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19
Number of pages	1
Journal	Physics World
Volume	18
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/18/6/24
State	Published - Jun 2005

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