Post 2 of 6: Rube Goldberg Machines and the Fight Against the Nazis

Rube Goldberg Machines and the Fight Against the Nazis

You must be very good before you can be very bad – the first rule of parody. That applies to writing comedy, or to designing ridiculous inventions.

Most people know the name of Rube Goldberg (1883 – 1970). He is best known for his cartoons showing improbable inventions, carrying out the simplest tasks in the most complicated fashion. Most people don’t know that he had his contemporary peers such W. Heath Robinson in Britain, and modern-day followers and acolytes. The annual Rube Goldberg competition organized by Perdue University lets engineering students show just how bad they can be, by building ridiculously complex devices – that still must deliver the end result, many steps.

And what exactly did Rube Goldberg machines have to do with the war against Hitler? You’ll have to watch the presentation to find out.

 

Opening credits of Elementary

A macabre application of the Mousetrap Game

 

 

How to pour beer: Rube Goldberg style

 

 

Heath Robinson Contraption: Animated

 

 

Heath Robinson Museum, London

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Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions: The Snoozatron

 

 

Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions:  Shopper 13

 

 

Rube Goldberg Competition 2010: the prescient Hand Sanitizer Dispenser

 

Rube Goldberg Competition 2013: inflate a balloon .. then pop it.

 

 

Chindogu Machine rules

https://www.tofugu.com/japan/chindogu-japanese-inventions/

Joseph Herscher

Joseph’s Machines

https://www.youtube.com/user/allonewordplease

https://www.rigb.org/blog/2012/january/chain-reaction-machines

Joseph’s Machines: The Page Turner

 

Joseph’s Machine: Pass the Pepper