Rube Goldberg | Biography, Cartoon, & Devices | Britannica

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Rube Goldberg was born the son of a San Francisco police and fire commissioner, who guided him into engineering at the University of California. He received a B.S. in 1904 and took a job designing sewer pipes for the San Francisco Sewer Department. Britannica …

Rube Goldberg - Wikipedia

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Rube Goldberg - Illustration History

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A prolific cartoonist and visionary, Rube Goldberg has become more famous for the inventions bearing his name than for his cartoons and political illustrations. Within his comic strips Goldberg created extremely …

The Story Behind Rube Goldberg’s Complicated …

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The Story Behind Rube Goldberg’s Complicated Contraptions In his time he was a world-famous cartoonist, but today he’s best known for these wacky inventions Emily Wilson

Rube Goldberg Biography - Childhood, Life …

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Rube Goldberg was proclaimed as the ‘Dean of American Cartoonists’ during his lifetime. He was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his cartoon titled ‘Peace Today’, which depicted caution against …

13 Ingenious Facts About Rube Goldberg | Mental Floss

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Because his cartoons were nationally syndicated, he became famous and was extraordinarily well paid. In the mid 1910s, he started illustrating complex contraptions, including a machine that...

Rube Goldberg | Lemelson

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All of Goldberg's cartoons, which treated sports, politics, and social life, were popular. In fact, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for a drawing that expressed a stark skepticism about the atomic bomb as a means of …

Rube Goldberg - Career History, Life Achievements.

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Rube Goldberg has become a well-loved figure due mostly to his cartoon contributions that depict all sorts of complicated inventions. He was even awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his …

Who Was Rube Goldberg, and What Are His Contraptions?

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In 1938, Goldberg started drawing political cartoons. In them, he began to comment on the rise of fascism. "He got a lot of criticism for it," including threats to himself and his family, Pritikin says. Among his famous …

Rube Goldberg - Early Educations and Careers.

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Although not yet famous, Rube had somehow established a name as a cartoonist around 1911. His father Max, who had previously discouraged him from becoming an artist, …