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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.
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.
May 1, 2018 · 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, and in the ’40s and ‘50s, he was famous ...
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...
His inexhaustible reservoir of elaborate contraptions that mutated simple tasks into madcap feats of ingenuity made Rube Goldberg rich and famous.
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) 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.
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 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.
