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Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), better known as Rube Goldberg ( / ˈruːb / ), 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.
May 1, 2018 · 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...
Rube Goldberg (born July 4, 1883, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died December 7, 1970, New York, New York) was an American cartoonist who satirized the American preoccupation with technology. His name became synonymous with any simple process made outlandishly complicated.
May 16, 2023 · The mouse trap was one of many chain reaction inventions by Reuben Goldberg, a "rock star" American cartoonist of the early 1900s, according to Renny Pritikin, former chief curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
Welcome to the Rube Goldberg Institute. Learn more about the man, the machines and the ways you can experience Rube Goldberg through the Institute’s resources.
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 prolific cartoonist and visionary, Rube Goldberg has become more famous for the inventions bearing his name than for his cartoons and political illustrations. Within his comic strips Goldberg created extremely complex machines that were built to perform a simple task.
Rube Goldberg (1883-1970), the Pulitzer Prize- winning cartoonist, is best known for his absurdly over-engineered invention cartoons. Today, his work inspires artists, advertisers, creators, and...
Jul 19, 2013 · It was the first solo exhibition of the inventor and cartoonist Reuben Lucius “Rube” Goldberg, who was, by then, already famous for designing overly complicated machines that fixed...
Rube Goldberg was an inventor of the absurd, a social critic who used cartoons to point out the plight of people caught up in an overly complicated world. Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born in San Francisco in 1883.
