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Rube Goldberg machine

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A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overcomplicated fashion. [1]

73 relations: Abol Tabol, Abstract art, Arthur Ganson, Austria, Bengali language, Bill Thomas, Booby trap, Bucket, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Carnegie Science Center, Cartoonist, Chindōgu, Copenhagen, Cracker (food), Deathtrap (plot device), Denmark, Domino effect, Food Network Challenge, France, Gırgır, Germany, Gyro Gearloose, India, Indiana, Japan, Japanese art, Kermit the Frog, Kinetic art, Ladle (spoon), Lighter, Magazine, MIT Museum, Mouse Trap (game), Napkin, Natural-gas processing, Parrot, Pendulum, Perchang, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Pittsburgh, Pullstring, Purdue University, PythagoraSwitch, Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Robert Storm Petersen, Rolling ball sculpture, Rope, Rowland Emett, Rube Goldberg, Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, ..., Science Olympiad, Seed, Sesame Street, Sickle, Skyrocket, Slot machine, Spain, Stovepipe system, Sukumar Ray, Switzerland, TBO (comics), The Great Egg Race, The Incredible Machine (video game), The Way Things Go, Theta Tau, Tim Hawkinson, Turboencabulator, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, University of California, Berkeley, Veeblefetzer, W. Heath Robinson. Expand index (23 more) »

Abol Tabol

Abol tabol (আবোল তাবোল;; literally "The Weird and the Absurd") is a collection of Bengali children's poems and rhymes composed by Sukumar Ray, first published on 19 September 1923 by U. Ray and Sons publishers.

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Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Arthur Ganson

Arthur Ganson (born 1955) is a kinetic sculptor.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Bill Thomas

William Marshall Thomas (born December 6, 1941) is an American politician.

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Booby trap

A booby trap is a device or setup that is intended to kill, harm, or surprise a person or animal, unknowingly triggered by the presence or actions of the victim.

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Bucket

A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Carnegie Science Center

The Carnegie Science Center is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Cartoonist

A cartoonist (also comic strip creator) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons.

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Chindōgu

is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem, but are in fact useless.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København; Hafnia) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark.

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Cracker (food)

A cracker is a baked food typically made from flour.

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Deathtrap (plot device)

A deathtrap is a literary and dramatic plot device in which a villain who has captured the hero or another sympathetic character attempts to use an elaborate and usually sadistic method of murdering him/her.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Domino effect

A domino effect or chain reaction is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a chain of similar events.

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Food Network Challenge

Food Network Challenge was a competitive cooking television series that aired on the Food Network.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Gırgır

Gırgır (meaning Fun in English) was a Turkish weekly humor magazine published from 1972 to 1993 in Turkey.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gyro Gearloose

Gyro Gearloose is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic chicken, created by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese art

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, ceramics, origami, and more recently manga—modern Japanese cartooning and comics—along with a myriad of other types.

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Kermit the Frog

Kermit the Frog is a Muppet character and Jim Henson's most well-known creation.

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Kinetic art

Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect.

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Ladle (spoon)

A ladle (dipper) is a type of spoon used for soup, stew, or other foods.

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Lighter

A lighter is a portable device used to create a flame, and to ignite a variety of combustible materials, such as cigars, gas stoves, fireworks, candles or cigarettes.

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Magazine

A magazine is a publication, usually a periodical publication, which is printed or electronically published (sometimes referred to as an online magazine).

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MIT Museum

The MIT Museum, founded in 1971 is located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mouse Trap (game)

Mouse Trap (originally titled Mouse Trap Game) is a board game first published by Ideal in 1963 for two to four players.

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Napkin

A napkin, serviette or face towelette is a rectangle of cloth used at the table for wiping the mouth and fingers while eating.

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Natural-gas processing

Natural-gas processing is a complex industrial process designed to clean raw natural gas by separating impurities and various non-methane hydrocarbons and fluids to produce what is known as pipeline quality dry natural gas.

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Parrot

Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 393 species in 92 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions.

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Pendulum

A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely.

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Perchang

Perchang is a physics-based game about getting little balls into a funnel.

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Peter Fischli & David Weiss

Peter Fischli (born 8 June 1952) and David Weiss (21 June 1946 – 27 April 2012), often shortened to Fischli/Weiss, were an artist duo that had been collaborating since 1979.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Pullstring

A pullstring (pull string, pull-string), pullcord (pull cord, pull-cord), or pullchain (pull-chain, pull chain) is a string, cord, or chain wound on a spring-loaded spindle that engages a mechanism when it is pulled.

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Purdue University

Purdue University is a public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana and is the flagship campus of the Purdue University system.

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PythagoraSwitch

is a 15-minute Japanese educational television program that has been aired by NHK since April 9, 2002.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.

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Robert Storm Petersen

Robert Storm Petersen (September 19, 1882 – March 6, 1949) was a Danish cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter and humorist.

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Rolling ball sculpture

A rolling ball sculpture (sometimes referred to as a marble run, ball run, gravitram, kugelbahn, or rolling ball machine) is a form of kinetic art – an art form of that contains moving pieces – that specifically involves one or more rolling balls.

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Rope

A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibers or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form.

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Rowland Emett

Frederick Rowland Emett OBE (22 October 190613 November 1990), known as Rowland Emett (with the forename sometimes spelled "Roland" and the surname frequently misspelled "Emmett"), was an English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture.

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Rube Goldberg

Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), known best as Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor.

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Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is a contest in which college or high school students build devices to complete a simple task in a minimum of twenty steps in the style of American cartoonist Rube Goldberg.

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Science Olympiad

Science Olympiad is an American team competition in which students compete in 23 'events' pertaining to various scientific disciplines, including earth science, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering.

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Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Sickle

A sickle, or bagging hook, is a hand-held agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting, or reaping, grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock, either freshly cut or dried as hay.

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Skyrocket

A skyrocket is a type of firework that uses a solid-fuel rocket to rise quickly into the sky; a bottle rocket is a small skyrocket.

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Slot machine

A slot machine (American English), known variously as a fruit machine (British English), puggy (Scottish English), the slots (Canadian and American English), poker machine/pokies (Australian English and New Zealand English), or simply slot (American English), is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Stovepipe system

In engineering and computing, "stovepipe system" is a pejorative term for a system that has the potential to share data or functionality with other systems but which does not.

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Sukumar Ray

Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়,; 30 October 1887 – 10 September 1923) was a Bengali humorous poet, story writer and playwright who mainly wrote for children.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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TBO (comics)

TBO was a long-running Spanish comic book magazine, published in Barcelona between 1917 and 1998.

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The Great Egg Race

The Great Egg Race was a BBC television series that ran from 1979 to 1986 broadcast on BBC 2.

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The Incredible Machine (video game)

The Incredible Machine is a video game released in 1993, and the first release in The Incredible Machine video game series.

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The Way Things Go

The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) is a 1987 art film by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

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Theta Tau

Theta Tau (ΘΤ) is a co-ed professional engineering fraternity.

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Tim Hawkinson

Tim Hawkinson (born 1960) is an artist from the United States of America who mostly works as a sculptor.

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Turboencabulator

The turboencabulator or turbo-encabulator (and its later incarnations, the retroencabulator or retro-encabulator and Micro Encabulator) is a fictional machine whose alleged existence became an in-joke and subject of professional humor among engineers.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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Veeblefetzer

Veeblefetzer is a word usually used facetiously as a placeholder name for any obscure or complicated object or mechanism, such as automobile parts, computer code and model railroad equipment.

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W. Heath Robinson

William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

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