How to Remove the Cotton from a Bottle of Aspirin by Rube Goldberg

A Rube Goldberg contraption – an elaborate set of arms, wheels, gears, handles, cups and rods, put in motion by balls, canary cages, pails, boots, bathtubs, paddles and live animals – takes a simple task and makes it extraordinarily complicated. This led to syndication and a national presence – and the rest is history.Ī founding member of the National Cartoonist Society, a political cartoonist and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Rube was a beloved national figure as well as an often-quoted radio and television personality during his sixty year professional career.īest known for his “inventions”, Rube’s early years as an engineer informed his most acclaimed work. Rube soon moved from San Francisco to New York to work for the Evening Mail drawing daily cartoons. While there he began to submit drawings and cartoons to the editor until he was finally published. After graduating from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in engineering, Rube went on to work as an engineer for the City of San Francisco Water and Sewers Department.Īfter six months Rube shifted gears and left the Sewers Department to become an office boy in the sports department of a San Francisco newspaper.

Reuben Lucius Goldberg (Rube Goldberg) was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1883. Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor and author.

How to Remove the Cotton from a Bottle of Aspirin by Rube Goldberg