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.

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.

By 1930, Healy and company appeared in their first feature film, Rube Goldberg's Soup to Nuts.

Soup to Nuts is an American feature film written by Rube Goldberg and directed by Benjamin Stoloff, which marks the film debut of the comic trio who would go on to become known as The Three Stooges.

Also in the Final Destination film series the characters often die in Rube Goldberg-esque ways.

In the film The Great Mouse Detective, the villain Ratigan attempts to kill the film's heroes, Basil of Baker Street and David Q. Dawson, with a Rube Goldberg style device.

* Apoorva Sagodharargal ( 1989 ) — in this Tamil language film, Appu ( Kamal Haasan ) kills Francis Anbarasu ( Delhi Ganesh ) using a Rube Goldberg machine.

* 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.

The year 2000 brought Final Destination, a splatter film consisting of survivors dying in Rube Goldberg machine-like ways.

The couple in the house were engaged by her for the purpose, the man being Rube Wallace, a film actor.

Drinking birds have appeared as part of a Rube Goldberg machine in the film Pee-wee's Big Adventure and the Family Guy episode " 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter ".

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

* Cog ( 2003 ) — a Honda television commercial featuring a complex Rube Goldberg machine made with Honda parts, utilising ideas from The Way Things Go ; accused of plagiarism

* Ruffles Max Machine ( May 2012 ) — a Ruffles internet commercial featuring a Rube Goldberg machine made by Wanda Digital Agency, produced by Kaporta Film.

Over the next few years the album saw many delays, but multiple promotional and video singles were released such as " Shine Blockas " featuring Gucci Mane, " For Yo Sorrows " featuring George Clinton and Too $ hort and " General Patton " featuring Big Rube.

* Screwball Comics: The First Nemo Annual ( 1985 ) Fantagraphics ( an anthology of vintage comics also featuring Rube Goldberg, Milt Gross and Dr. Seuss )

** This Too Shall Pass – RGM version – Music video by the group OK Go featuring a large-scale Rube Goldberg machine

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.

* Rube Goldberg machines are featured repeatedly in the movies of Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

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

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.