{"id":7454,"date":"2012-05-11T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2025-02-26T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:04:21","slug":"the-noble-rube-goldberg-machine-from-creationeer-extraordinaire-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/the-noble-rube-goldberg-machine-from-creationeer-extraordinaire-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"The Noble Rube Goldberg Machine\u2026 From Creationeer Extraordinaire, Lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Here at Davison, we\u2019ve designed a lot of inventions over the years that solve a wide variety of problems, usually in the simplest or most efficient way possible. Sometimes, however, the most exciting, funny or engaging way to solve the simplest problem is the most complicated. You may be asking yourself, \u201cWhat is he talking about?\u201d Why a Rube Goldberg Machine, of course!
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\nRube Goldberg was originally an engineer for the City of San Francisco Water and Sewers Department, a career that he abandoned to work as an office-boy at a San Francisco newspaper. After he was there for a while, he started submitting drawings and cartoons until he was finally published. He went on to become a founding member of the National Cartoonist Society and even won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for a cartoon warning against the dangers of Atomic Weapons. What he\u2019s most remembered for, however, is his Weekly Invention strip. He would invent the most elaborate setups to perform the simplest tasks, ergo the Rube Goldberg Machine. For example, the Self-Operating Napkin. As the man takes a sip of his soup [A], he pulls a string [B], which yanks a lever that flings a ladle [C], which throws a cracker [D] in the air past a parrot [E], who upon leaving his perch [F] to catch the cracker [D] upsets a bag of seed [G] which spills into a pail [H]. The pail [H] increases in weight and pulls a cord [I], which opens and lights an automatic cigar lighter [J], setting off a rocket [K], which causes the sickle [L] to cut the string [M] and allow the pendulum with the attached napkin [to] swing back and forth, wiping the man\u2019s mouth.
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