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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.
Adam Sadowsky (October 28, 1970 – August 11, 2021) was an American entrepreneur and actor.. He was the president of Syyn Labs, the company responsible for building the Rube Goldberg machine featured in the music video for the OK Go song "This Too Shall Pass".
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: 1900 Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of "Rube Goldberg" machines. [10] Walter A. Haas: 1905 Board Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co and namesake of Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. [11] Newton B. Drury: 1908 Fourth Director of the National Park Service. [12] Alexander Calder: 1915 Renowned artist and inventor of the mobile. [2 ...
"Rube Goldberg's Big Book of Building: Make 25 Machines That Really Work" (Abrams Books for Young Readers), by Jennifer George and Zach Umperovitch, illustrated by Ed Steckley. Build crazy ...
Rube Goldberg's Boob McNutt (February 22, 1925) Boob McNutt was a comic strip by Rube Goldberg which ran from June 9, 1918 to September 23, 1934. [ 1 ] It was syndicated by the McNaught Syndicate from 1922 until the end of its run.
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 ...
As part of the success of both videos, the band has begun auctioning props from the videos, including uniforms worn by the band for the marching band video and the individual ping-pong balls from the second video. [23] The Rube Goldberg video was included in a shortlist of 125 entries out of 23,000 for inclusion in "YouTube Play: A Biennial of ...