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Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), better known as Rube Goldberg (/ ˈ r uː b /), was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways.
Soup to Nuts is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film written by cartoonist, sculptor, author, and inventor Rube Goldberg and directed by Benjamin Stoloff.It was the film debut of the original four members who would later, minus Ted Healy, go on to become known as The Three Stooges comic trio (Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine).
Brett Doar is a multi-disciplinary artist, engineer and contraptionist known for building Rube Goldberg machines and other interactive and kinetic devices. Doar is best known for his roles as a primary engineer for the Rube Goldberg machine in OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" music video, [1] lead engineer and creative director for "Red Bull Kluge," [2] and creator of GoldieBlox's "Princess ...
George Warren George (né Goldberg; February 8, 1920 – November 7, 2007) was an American theater, Broadway and film producer. His credits included the film My Dinner With Andre (1981) and several hit Broadway productions.
A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction–type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way. Usually, these machines consist of a series of simple unrelated devices; the action of each triggers the initiation ...
Rube Goldberg, B.S. 1904 – cartoonist and namesake of Rube Goldberg machines, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 [11] (also listed in Pulitzer Prizes section) Stephan Pastis, B.A. 1989 – creator of Pearls Before Swine [12]
The most notable was an examination of the work of Rube Goldberg called The Art of Rube Goldberg which was met with critical acclaim in 1973. [12] Additionally, Marzio wrote two books on lithography–in 1976, The Art Crusade: An Analysis of American Drawing Manuals, 1820–1860 and, in 1979, The Democratic Art—Pictures Pictures for a 19th ...
Mike and Ike (They Look Alike) was a comic strip by Rube Goldberg, who introduced the identical twin characters in the San Francisco Bulletin on September 29, 1907. The strip was syndicated by the McClure Syndicate from March 9, 1913, to February 1, 1914.