Rube Goldberg Emmy

1. NEW YORK SUN
December 8th 1970
We are sad to inform that yesterday Reuben (Rube) Garrett
Lucius Goldberg passed away from cancer at the age of 87.
Rube was a passionate cartoonist, an engineer, a sculptor and a
news reporter. He worked for five newspapers including the ‘New
York Sun’. Rube received many awards for his cartoons including
the ‘Pulitzer Prize’ in 1948 for a political cartoon and the ‘Banshees
Silver Lady Award’ in 1959.
Rube was best known for a series of cartoons that showed
complicated machines performing simple tasks, although he never
created anything that he drew.
The ‘Reuben Award’ was created in his honour, a recognition of the
Cartoonist of the year by ‘The National Cartoonist Society’ which he
was a co-founder and first president of.

2. Rube was born July 4th 1883 in San Francisco, to
Jewish parents Hannah and Max Goldberg. He
was the third of seven children, of which three
died.
Rube’s father was a police and fire commissioner
and encouraged Rube to pursue a career in
engineering. After obtaining a degree in
engineering, Rube was hired by the Water and
Sewers department in San Francisco as an
engineer. After six months he resigned and became
a sports cartoonist. From there, he began a career
as a prolific artist.
In 1916 Rube married Irma Seeman(1895-1990)
and they lived in Central Park, New York. They had
two children called Thomas and George.
During World War 2, hatred towards Rube’s
political views expressed in his cartoons lead to his
sons Thomas and George changing their surnames.
Thomas chose the surname George and his brother
followed suit.
His life and times

3. Rube Goldberg Machines
A Rube Goldberg machine is an invention that is
over-engineered to perform a simple task in a
complicated matter.
Rubes cartoons became well known for showing
simple tasks being performed in complicated,
indirect ways.
‘And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his
personality changes with his success. I’ve had quite a bit of
success, but I feel I’m just the same person I always was’
-Reuben Garrett Lucius
Goldberg
(1883-
1970)

4. This is Rube Goldberg’s Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon, first
published 1947 in the New York Sun
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