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Rube Goldberg Machine Contest background (1483 words) |
 | In his words, the machines were a "symbol of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results." He believed that most people preferred doing things the hard way instead of using simpler, more direct path s to accomplish goals. |
| Rube Goldberg Machine Contests bring Goldberg's cartoons to life in a way that pulls students away from traditional ways of looking at problems and sends them spinning into the intuitive, chaotic realm of imagination. |
| A good Rube Goldberg machine incorporates the everyday machines people are used to seeing and connects them in ways that may seem idiotic or ingenious. |
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Rube Goldberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1589 words) |
| Goldberg took a job with the New York Sun in 1938 as a political cartoonist, and was successful in this endeavor as well; he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948. |
| Rube's machines are often featured on television or in movies, too, for their ingenious nature and pure craziness. |
| In the 7th season X-Files episode "The Goldberg Variation" Mulder and Sculley meet a man who has a great amount of good luck that manifests as a sort of Rube Goldberg device, with improbable events combining to effect a certain outcome. |
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