[Amps] Rube Goldberg

[COLIN LAMB]

Phil said:

 

>To each his own; I am just not a "Rube Goldberg" type when it comes
>to amp building!
>
>(((73)))
>Phil, K5PC
 
Hey, take it easy on Rube.  He is getting a bad rap.  Rube was really a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who graduated in engineering from University of California at Berkeley and started work with the Sewer Department of San Francisco.  After he worked at that for awhile he got enough ammunition to propel him to be a cartoonist at the New York Evening Mail.  According to the official website http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html Rube was skeptical about technology and made his "inventions" out of human, plant and animal parts.  "While most machines work to make difficult tasks simple, his inventions made simple tasks amazingly complex.  Dozens of arms, wheels, gears, handles, cups and rods were put in motion by balls, canary cages, pails, boots bathtubs, paddles, and even live animals for simple tasks like squeezing an orange for juice..."
 
"Rube's drawings depict absurdly-connected machines functioning in extremely complex and and roundabout ways to produce a simple end result; because of this RUBE GOLDBERG has become associated with any convoluted system of achieving a basic task."

 
The point is that Rube did not use junk box parts to save money or to use what was at hand.  He would often go out and buy new parts over the counter.  
 
73,  Colin  K7FM






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