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Rube Goldberg machine

A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction–type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in a comically overcomplicated way. First appearing in a cartoon for the New York Evening Mail, these machines consist of a series of simple unrelated devices; the action of each triggers…

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related to In popular culture · 39
Rube Goldberg machine → An England, Back, Brazil, British, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cog, Contraption Masters, Der Lauf, Dinge, Future, Future III, Goldberg's, Gromit, Heath Robinson, In, In Ernest Goes, In Pee-wee's Big Adventure, In The Goonies, In The Money Pit, In Wallace
related to Competitions · 25
Rube Goldberg machine → After, Arthur Ganson, Berkeley, California, Cambridge, Each, Epsilon, FAT, Friday After Thanksgiving, In, Indiana, Massachusetts, MIT Museum, National Engineers Week, Phi, Purdue University, Rube Goldberg, Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, Since, Teams
related to history · 15
Rube Goldberg machine → Another, Automatic Weight-Reducing Machine, Goldberg's, In, Inventions, It, Maynard Frank Wolfe, New York Evening Mail, Professor Butts, Rube Goldberg, Rube Goldberg Archives, Rube Goldberg's Inventions, Self-Operating Napkin, The, US
related to Related · 13
Rube Goldberg machine → Australian, Bruce Petty, Danish, He, In Denmark, Inventions, Man Environment Machine, Petersen, Petty, Robert Storm Petersen, Rube Goldberg, Storm, World's Fair
related to External links · 10
Rube Goldberg machine → After Thanksgiving, American Art, Archives, ContestDetailed, FAT, MIT Museum, National Rube Goldberg Machine, New York City, Oral History Interview, Rube Goldberg

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    Rube Goldberg machine

    Nodes66
    Edges65
    Triples105
    Avg. degree1.97
    Density0.030303
    Components1
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