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Rube Goldberg
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:25:22
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 1 pages (256 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 1 pages (256 words)
<Tab/>A Rube Goldberg machine is any exceedingly complex apparatus designed to serve a specific function that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. Rube devised and drew several
such pataphysical devices. The best examples of his machines have an anticipation factor. The fact that something
so wacky is happening can only be topped by it happening in a suspenseful manner.
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Rube Goldberg's ideas. (This game is currently being made by Hasbro.) Rube's machines are often featured on
television or in movies, too, for their ingenious nature and pure craziness. Sierra Entertainment released the computer
game The Incredible Machine on CD-ROM for either PC or Macintosh computers, designed around the Rube
Goldberg concept. Two other games in the series, Return of the Incredible Machine, and The Incredible Machine -
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