A Rube Goldberg machine or device is any exceedingly complex apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. Rube devised such pataphysical devices. The best examples of his machines have an anticipation factor: the fact that something so wacky is happening can only be topped by it happening in a suspenseful manner.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg sketch from the collection of Ropes & Gray
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