Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor and author.
Reuben Lucius Goldberg (Rube Goldberg) was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1883. 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.
After six months Rube shifted gears and left the Sewers Department to become an office boy in the sports department of a San Francisco newspaper. While there he began to submit drawings and cartoons to the editor until he was finally published. Rube soon moved from San Francisco to New York to work for the Evening Mail drawing daily cartoons. This led to syndication and a national presence – and the rest is history. (Read more about Rube Goldberg here: http://www.rubegoldberg.com/about).
He is most famous for his "machines" cartoons like the one below:
His cartoons would actually inspire engineers and other tech savvy people to invent the machines he created in his comics. Below is an example of a video that utilizes a Rube Goldberg Machine:
How does this work? Well, through our understanding of the laws of conservation of momentum and energy we know that what you start with is what you end with. Hence, each device transfers energy and momentum to next device in the system to ultimately accomplish one final task.
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