Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg lived from July 4, 1883 to December 7, 1970 and he was and North American cartoonist, sculptor, inventor, engineer and author. His father led him to study engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. According to biography.com he graduated in 1904 and he started working as sewer system designer, but he left after only 4 months to become a sportswriter and cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle (until 1905), for San Francisco Bulletin (from 1905 to 1907) and New York Evening Mail (1907-1921) where he created 3 long running comic strips.
Rube Goldberg is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets, they perform simple tasks in convoluted, indirect ways. These device are known as Rube Goldberg machines. He was a founding member and the first president of National Cartoonist Society in US, he is also the namesake of the Reuben Award. The international competitions called Rube Goldberg Machine Contests challenge the participants to make complex machines to perform simple tasks.
In 1938 Rube Goldberg started working at editorial cartooning, working for The New York Sun, The New York Journal and The Journal American. The won the Pulitzer price in 1948 for the best editorial cartoon called Peace Today, a warning against atomic weapons. He retired from drawing cartoons in 1964.
This video is Tim Fort's kinetic art, he and his friend created an incredible Rube Goldberg like contraption using extensive repertoire of impulse transmission techniques. Considering this, it's not wrong to say that Rube Goldberg has inspired some generation of humans to work toward the overly engineered and he will always be remembered for reminding our society of its focus on technology, for making the completion of simple tasks overly complicated in the process.
The video from the beginning of this article is an Rube Goldberg office contraption.
The Moth Killer Rube Goldberg Machine would kill a moth, but he thought it was hilariously over thought and over built.
The morning wake up and shoe donning machine was the solution for busy people who needed to be prevented from going back to bed.
Uploaded on youtube by realgood008, this great beer pouring Rube Goldberg contraption was built in over 10 hours.
Rube Goldberg invented a simple way to open your egg without dropping it.
It may seems futile for many people, but this device helps you to fish an olive out of a long necked bottle.
Finally, this video is taken from the Japanese Rube Goldberg contest and shows an amazing type machine to fix ramen for dinner.
