2. Personal life
Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born July 4, 1883, in San Francisco
California to Jewish parents Max and Hannah Goldberg. He was
the third of seven children, three of them died as children
(older brother Garrett, younger brother Walter, and younger
sister Lillian also survived).
Rube began started drawing when he was four years old, and
first took professional drawing lessons when he was eleven.
Rube married Irma Seeman on October 17, 1916 and lived in
New York City. They had two sons named Thomas and George.
Goldberg died in 1970 at the age of 87
3. His Career – Multiple Talents
Best known for his “inventions”, Rube’s early years as an
engineer informed his most acclaimed work.
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.
He was a founding member of the National Cartoonist
Society, a political cartoonist and a Pulitzer prize winner.
The machine Contest brings rube’s comic genius to life for
millions of fans.
4. In 1931 the Merriam-Webster dictionary adopted the phrase “Rube Goldberg” as adjective
defined accomplishing something simple through complicated means.
Rube Goldberg's legacy innovation, humor and unconventional thinking is an model for us all
References: http://rubegoldberg.com/about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
