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.

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

Employing a good fastball, outstanding control, and, especially, a new pitch he termed the " fadeaway " ( later known in baseball as the " screwball "), which he learned from teammate Dave Williams in 1898, This reference is challenged by Ken Burns documentary Baseball in which it is stated that Mathewson learned his " fadeaway " from Andrew " Rube " Foster when New York Giants manager John Joseph McGraw quietly hired Rube to show the Giants bullpen what he knew.

compiled by Maynard Frank Wolfe from the Rube Goldberg Archives.

* 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

* In an episode of the Cartoon Network show Ed, Edd n Eddy, Edd and Eddy constructed a giant Rube Goldberg machine disguised as the Statue of Liberty in order to destroy Ed's violin, but it failed because Edd purposely sabotaged it by luring Ed away from the target.

* At the end of the episode ' Revenge of the Ghostmaster ' from ' The Real Ghostbusters ', Ray, Egon and Slimer use a relatively simple Rube Goldberg Machine to trap the Ghostmaster from over forty feet away.

* TV show X-Files, has an episode named " The Goldberg Variation ", where one character escapes from the death through events that work like a Rube Goldberg machine.

* Unchained Reaction is an American TV series with competing teams to build a Rube Goldberg device to be judged by industry professionals from many varied fields.

* Detailed specifications of an award-winning Rube Goldberg machine from the New York City science fair

* April 23 – the Hall of Fame Committee clears the deadlock at the top of the writers ' ballot by selecting 11 new inductees, primarily from the popular candidates of the 1900s and 1910s: Jesse Burkett, Frank Chance, Jack Chesbro, Johnny Evers, Clark Griffith, Tommy McCarthy, Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Joe Tinker, Rube Waddell and Ed Walsh.

Trumbull initially created the shots using a number of Rube Goldberg – like contraptions he built with gears and motors ordered from a scientific equipment supply house.

* Boob McNutt, a comic strip by Rube Goldberg which ran from 1915 to September 1934

Walcott won the title on December 15, 1901 from James " Rube " Ferns via a 5 round TKO.

An XPointer processor, given that URI, would obtain a representation of the document ( such as by requesting it from the Internet ) and would return a representation of the document's " Rube " elements.

Raymond Bloom " Rube " Bressler ( October 23, 1894 – November 7, 1966 ) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1914 to 1916 and Cincinnati Reds from 1917 to 1920, before being converted to an outfielder and first baseman for Cincinnati from 1918 to 1927, the Brooklyn Robins from 1928 to 1931 and the Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals in his final year of 1931.

In early 1987, Purdue University in Indiana started the annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, organized by the Phi Chapter of Theta Tau, a national engineering fraternity.

Connie Mack, now in Philadelphia, was desperate for pitching, and when he learned Rube was pitching in California, he dispatched two Pinkerton agents to sneak Waddell back to Philadelphia, where he would lead the Philadelphia Athletics to the 1902 American League crown.

From 1929 to 1930 Purvis recorded with Kemp, Smith Ballew, Ted Wallace ( a pseudonym for agent Ed Kirkeby ), Rube Bloom, the California Ramblers, and Roy Wilson's Georgia Crackers.

After one-hitting Boston on May 2, 1904, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Rube Waddell taunted Young to face him so that he could repeat his performance against Boston's ace.

* Five Major League Baseball players were born or have been residents in Lenoir: Johnny Allen ( born 1904 ), Lindsay Deal ( born 1911 ), Charlie Cozart ( born 1919 ), Rube Walker ( born 1926 ), and Madison Bumgarner ( born 1989 ).

Foster, the much-younger half-brother of Negro league player, pioneer, and fellow Hall of Famer, Rube Foster, was born in Calvert, Texas in 1904.

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

In 1999, Martínez became just the 8th modern pitcher to have a second 300-strikeout season, along with Nolan Ryan ( 6 times ), Randy Johnson ( third time in 1999, and three more times since ), Sandy Koufax ( 3 times ), Rube Waddell, Walter Johnson, Sam McDowell, J. R. Richard, and Curt Schilling ; Schilling would later add a third 300-K season.

Rube Goldberg with family, 1929

Goldberg's work was commemorated posthumously in 1995 with the inclusion of Rube Goldberg's Inventions, depicting Professor Butts ' " Self-Operating Napkin " in the Comic Strip Classics series of U. S. postage stamps.

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.

* Smithsonian's Archives of American Art: Oral History Interview with Rube Goldberg, 1970

The Athletics had us beaten, with Rube Waddell pitching.

You can understand what it meant for a 20-year-old country boy to hit a home run off the great Rube, in a pennant-winning game with two outs in the ninth.

* Reuben Houston " Rube " Burrow, The most wanted outlaw of the late 1880s, he committed a series of train robberies along with his younger brother James Buchanan " Jim " Burrow.

Rube came down with pneumonia after each flood and subsequently died of tuberculosis.

At age seventeen, Paul played with Rube Tronson's Texas Cowboys, and soon after he dropped out of high school to join Wolverton's Radio Band in St. Louis, Missouri, on KMOX.

On December 12, 1933, team owner Connie Mack traded Grove, along with Max Bishop and Rube Walberg, to the Boston Red Sox for Bob Kline, Rabbit Warstler and $ 125, 000.

* India — the humorist and children's author Sukumar Ray, in his nonsense poem " Abol tabol ", had a character ( Uncle ) with a Rube Goldberg-like machine called " Uncle's contraption ".

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

* This Too Shall Pass ( 2010 ) — the promotional music video for OK Go's single features a giant Rube Goldberg machine working in sync with the song.

* The 2010 Times Square SUV bomb was referred to as a " Rube Goldberg contraption " by James Cavanaugh, a former ATF agent working with New York City to investigate the attempted terrorist act.

When Ronald Reagan took office, Laxalt's close ties with Reagan proved useful, and Reagan canceled the new shelter system in 1981, calling it " a Rube Goldberg scheme ".

Beebe was a well-known figure in the Roaring Twenties of New York City, and was friends with numerous other well-known figures of the period, including Fannie Hurst and the cartoonist Rube Goldberg.

Rube brought several other Minneapolis players with him.

A lifelong chain-smoker, he happily plugged Chesterfield cigarettes ; he appeared in Schaeffer fountain pen ads with his friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ; pitched the Famous Artists School ( in which he had a financial interest ) along with Caniff, Rube Goldberg, Virgil Partch, Willard Mullin and Whitney Darrow, Jr ; and, though a professed teetotaler, he personally endorsed Rheingold Beer, among other products.

The protagonist Reodor Felgen ( English version: Theodore Rimspoke ) has become synonymous in Norway with Rube Goldberg type contraptions.