The machine quack makes his Rube Goldberg devices out of odds and ends of metals, wires, and radio parts.

Among his earliest influences were Punch cartoonist – illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross.

The Reuben, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is the most prestigious award for U. S. comic strip artists.

Dominoes are also commonly used as components in Rube Goldberg machines.

* 1883 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist ( d. 1970 )

1. n. A Rube Goldberg ( or Heath Robinson ) device, whether in hardware or software.

It supposedly had a Rube Goldberg machine reputation, and was " temperamental, subject to frequent breakdowns, and devilishly difficult to repair — but oh, so clever!

The resulting architecture resembles a Rube Goldberg Machine that scares organizations from solving the root cause of the sprawling layers, resulting in the creation of more layers.

On one of those flights, Russell proposed a club to Rube Goldberg and others so the group could still get together after WWII ended.

Also among the early 32 members were syndicated panel cartoonists Dave Breger ( Mister Breger ), George Clark ( The Neighbors ), Bob Dunn ( Just the Type ) and Jimmy Hatlo ( They'll Do It Every Time ); freelance magazine cartoonists Abner Dean and Mischa Richter, editorial cartoonists Rube Goldberg ( New York Sun ), Burris Jenkins ( New York Journal American ), C. D. Batchelor ( Daily News ) and Richard Q. Yardley ( The Baltimore Sun ); sports cartoonist Lou Hanlon ; illustrator Russell Patterson and comic book artists Joe Shuster and Joe Musial.

When the NCS started, Rube Goldberg, Russell Patterson and Bob Dunn had become very friendly with a lot of actors.

When the award name was changed in 1954, all of the prior eight winners were given Reuben statuettes designed by and named after the NCS ' first president, Rube Goldberg.

* 1967: Rube Goldberg, Humor in Sculpture

* 1980 Rube Goldberg ( posthumous )

* 1955 Rube Goldberg

* 1946-1948 Rube Goldberg

These devices, now known as Rube Goldberg machines, are similar to those drawn by W. Heath Robinson in the UK and Storm P in Denmark.

He is the inspiration for various international competitions, known as Rube Goldberg Machine Contests, which challenge participants to make a complex machine to perform a simple task.

Rube Goldberg with family, 1929

Thomas and George's children now run a company called RGI ( Rube Goldberg Incorporated ) to maintain the Goldberg name.

This postcard book, Rube Goldberg's Inventions !, was compiled by Maynard Frank Wolfe from the Rube Goldberg Archives.

In 1931 the Merriam-Webster dictionary adopted the word " Rube Goldberg " as an adjective defined as accomplishing something simple through complex means.

Rube Goldberg wrote a feature film featuring his machines and sculptures called Soup to Nuts, which was released in 1930 and starred Ted Healy and The Three Stooges.

Rube Goldberg's machines, intentionally overly-complex solutions to simple tasks or problems, are humorous examples of " non-KISS " solutions.

The popular 1963 board game Mouse Trap, as well as its sequels Crazy Clock ( 1964 ), and Fish Bait ( 1965 ) are based on Rube Goldberg machines.

Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson were artists who contrived machines of a ' pataphysical bent.

Teams of contestants construct elaborate Rube Goldberg style chain-reaction machines on tables arranged around a large gymnasium.

* Brazil ( 1985 ) — directed by Terry Gilliam and set in a dystopian totalitarian bureaucratic society, features many Rube Goldberg machines with specific household uses.

* Wallace and Gromit ( 1989 ?— 2010 ) — a series of films featuring many contraptions that qualify as Rube Goldberg machines.

* Final Destination ( film series ) In each Final Destination, a group of people die in a series of elaborate, invariably fatal and often gory scenarios that frequently resemble Rube Goldberg machines in their complexity.

* Los grandes inventos del TBO, presentados por el profesor Franz de Copenhague, intricate machines reminding of Rube Goldberg machines.

The plans usually feature everyday artefacts such as Lego, party balloons, cigarettes etc., which are combined to work like Rube Goldberg machines, and clever social engineering.

In 1934, he even brought in Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, inventor of those famed Rube Goldberg machines, for a brief sojourn before the strip was cancelled.

: The event, as the name suggests, requires complicated contraptions ( essentially Rube Goldberg machines ) to be built to perform apparently simple tasks under given set of constraints.

Most of Wallace's inventions look not unlike the designs of W. Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg, and Nick Park has said of Wallace that all his inventions are designed around the principle of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Andy's and Flo's best friends are their neighbours Chalkie and Rube White.

They are caught, and Ratigan ties them to a spring-loaded mousetrap connected with a Rube Goldberg machine.

They are silent except for a single " I'm only three and a half years old ", and retreat when one of Jones great cats shows up-a Rube Goldberg by day, drunken roisterer by night.

She is soon informed that, rather than moving on to the " great beyond ", she will become Grim Reaper in the External Influence Division, collecting souls of people who die in accidents ( many of which are of a Rube Goldberg-style in their complexity ), suicides and homicides.

Rube ( Mandy Patinkin ) and George are more straightforward about their sadness.

Gravelings are mischievous gremlin-like creatures that cause the accidents and mishaps ( in the form of Rube Goldberg machine scenarios ) that kill people.

Those players are: Grover Cleveland Alexander, Luke Appling, Gabby Hartnett, Harmon Killebrew, Nap Lajoie, Al Lopez, Rube Marquard, Joe McCarthy, Bill McKechnie, Ray Schalk.

Other cartoonists who are known for similar machine drawings are Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson.

Bloom formed and led a number of bands during his career, such as Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys ( which consisted of 3 records made over 3 sessions in 1930 and are considered 6 of the hottest recordings made in the first days of the depression.

Once the right objects are in the right states they form a convoluted, Rube Goldberg-like method of exiting the room.

Unlike the Rube Goldberg nature of The Incredible Machine, the parts in Widget Workshop are not mechanical or physical.