My Rube Goldberg Harrison

1. RUBE GOLDBERG
Rube Goldberg is the inspiration of the Rube
Goldberg machine which is a really
complicated machine that’s is made to do a
simple every day tasks.

2. Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born in San Francisco July 4.
He worked for a magazine article called New York Evening Mail and drew rube
Goldberg machines like this one.

3. Rube Goldberg has become a well-loved figure due mostly to his cartoon
contributions that inspired all sorts of complicated inventions. He was even
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his work as a cartoonist. His engineering degree at
the University of California Berkeley had provided him with some knowledge of
and ideas for his mechanical contraptions. He did not really build real models of
Rube Goldberg machines, but did inspire scientists and engineers from all over the
world to do so. His father was the one who wanted him to take what was
considered to be a more practical career. Rube Goldberg was often discouraged
to pursue his artistic design. It was his invention comic strips that had later on made
him a household name for people who also love to tinker and discover things.
Career

4. PERSONAL LIFE
Reuben Garret Lucius
Goldberg had Jewish
parents called 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 married Irma
Seeman on October 17,
1916. They lived at 98
Central Park West in
New York City and had
two sons named
Thomas and George.
During World War II Goldberg's sons changed their
surname, at Goldberg's insistence, because of the
amount of hatred towards him from the nature of his
cartoons. Thomas chose the surname of George for
his brother, and George, wanting to keep a sense of
family cohesiveness, did the same. Thomas and
George's children now run a company called RGI
(Rube Goldberg Incorporated) to maintain the
Goldberg name. John George (Thomas's son) is
assisted by his cousin Jennifer George (George's
daughter) and John's son Joshua George to keep
the family name alive.
Goldberg died in 1970 at the age of 87, while his
widow, Irma, died on April 26, 1990 at the age of 95.