On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:45:15 +0100 (BST), Roger Parsons wrote:
>I hate to admit my ignorance, but:
>
>Who was Rube Goldberg?
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Rube was famous for making things far more complex than they needed to
be, and often they performed some meaningless task as well. You've
probably seen the contraption where the ball rolls down an incline,
falls on a lever which trips a switch which empties a glass of water
which tilts a seesaw which... etc, etc. That was Mr. Goldberg.
A biography is at http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html/bio.htm
He did win a Pulitzer prize for his cartoons, no mean feat.
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Bill, W6WRT
QSLs via LoTW
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