PHILADELPHIA — This artist is famous enough for his name to become an adjective recognizable over a century. His namesake Rube Goldberg machines make simple tasks ridiculously complicated. But did you ...

Even if you don’t know his name, you have likely seen a Rube Goldberg machine in a television commercial, cartoon or movie. The complicated mechanical systems are often made of everyday items cobbled ...

Ever feel like you’re a tiny cog in a giant industrial machine producing something pretty insignificant? Rube Goldberg knew just how you felt. In fact, he made a career out of it, or at least a great ...

A team from St. Olaf College, a private liberal arts school in Northfield, Minn., won the 22nd annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University on Saturday (March 28). St. Olaf, with ...

The end result of this multi-step machine is to sweep dirt under the rug. submitted If, for some reason, you’re struggling with the concept of cause and effect, get yourself over to the Indiana State ...

An award-winning, self-taught artist; a punch line; a canny social satirist and raconteur: The many facets of cartoonist Rube Goldberg, a man whose name is synonymous with wacky, chain-reaction ...

When you dumped coffee into your coffee maker this morning and flipped the switch on, a few minutes later you probably had a steaming cup of Joe. That’s what machines do. You flip a switch or push a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — College and high school teams will test their carpentry skills in this year's local Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Feb. 23 in Purdue University Armory. The contest, sponsored ...

West Lafayette - The complicated task that competitors in this year's Rube Goldberg contest will have to perform is something that's become very familiar to Americans in the past year - pumping out ...