Rube Goldberg

BTN LiveBIG: Purdue's Rube Goldberg wins award

BTN LiveBIG: Purdue's Rube Goldberg wins award

How did Rube Goldberg?s name become synonymous with overcomplicated machines that do simple tasks? Because he made cartoon fun of complicated machines. He was so successful at his drawings that a hundred years after his birth, Purdue University decided to harness the obsession Americans have with his absurdly complex machines and founded a competition for […]