Sunday, July 4, 2010

rube goldberg

rube goldberg

Rube Goldberg Machine Google Doodle July.Google rely on its fourth animated fireworks on July Fourth Rube Goldberg machine.By click the arrow to the left side of the animation, the apparatus has a life, undergo a complex series of steps - with a bird, a bowling ball and a hot iron - before releasing into the air and fireworks shower of letters .

Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist from New York who is best known for his cartoons depicting overly complicated instruments that achieve simple results.Coined "Rube Goldberg machines," these complex contraptions originated with his strip entitled, "The Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts," which first appeared in 1914.

Inspired by Goldberg's engineering background -- he graduated from the University of California with a mining degree -- Butts' inventions betrayed the cartoonists' stance against the move towards increasingly confusing modern gadgets.Goldberg worked for the New York Evening Journal and the New York Evening Mail and died in 1970 at the age of 87.

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