The goal is to create a Rube Goldberg machine that, in 10 to 20 steps, drops a bar of soap into someone's hands. "It just seemed like the right task. Everyone has got a bar of soap somewhere in ...

Rube Goldberg machines are devices that are designed to perform a specific task in numerous insignificant, yet complicated, steps. The combined efforts of each step ultimately leads to the execution ...

Why change a lightbulb the easy way when you can build a Rube Goldberg machine to do it for you? Jiwi’s latest contraption delivers a hilarious, over-engineered solution to a simple problem with ...

First year engineering students in Engineering Design 1 have been busy. They have been assigned the task of building a complex machine to do the simple task of marking and depositing a ballot. Faculty ...

FIn conjunction with its 100th anniversary, Agincourt Collegiate Institute held its Rube Goldberg Competition on Tuesday, March 10. The competition brought groups of Grade 11 physics students together ...

In the first of many collaborations that celebrate the spirit of noted cartoonist and engineer Rube Goldberg, Miracle will introduce its Miracle Machines ™ product line at the American Society ...

Machines like the ones the Rounds made are named after Rube Goldberg, a famous cartoonist known for sketching them. Each year, Rube Goldberg Inc. puts on a contest to celebrate his idea.

The Inventive Rube Goldberg—A Life in Comics, Contraptions, and Six Simple Machines Catherine Thimmesh, illus. by Shanda McCloskey. Chronicle, $19.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4521-4422-1 ...

Future engineering students are becoming inventors. Students from Milwaukee-area middle schools were tasked with creating a complicated machine that can do simple things, like feed a pet.