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Morning Open Thread: Rube Goldberg Machines [1]

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Date: 2023-10-11

Some fun for you today: modern Rube Goldberg devices.

Rube Goldberg (1883–1970) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist, inventor, innovator, and the only person whose name is an adjective in Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary.

Rube’s invention cartoons are only a small part of his life’s work, yet they define his career. A Rube Goldberg Machine® solves a simple problem in the most ridiculously inefficient way possible.

www.rubegoldberg.org/…

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During his 72-year career, cartoonist Rube Goldberg produced more than 50,000 drawings and thousands of comic strips. In 1922, Goldberg was so sought after that a newspaper syndicate paid him $200,000 for his comic strips – the equivalent of around $2.3 million today….

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