Stumbled: Rube Goldberg Machines

Found: "Best Rube Goldberg Ever"


Coincidentally, my father was speaking to me just today of Rube Goldberg, and finding this video by chance encouraged me to do a bit of digging. Rube Goldberg was famous for his machines, which used overly complicated means to perform simple actions, later parodied by the shorts of Wallace & Gromit (case in point).

See more Rube Goldberg machines here, and the entries to a Rube Goldberg machine contest here.

Another article of interest may be the wild machines of cartoonist and illustrator Heath Robinson.