Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, and engineer born in 1883 in San Francisco. He is known for creating ridiculously complex machines to perform simple tasks. One of his famous inventions was the "self-operating napkin" which used a series of steps including a soup spoon, parrot, and skyrocket to wipe a chin. Throughout his career, Goldberg was fascinated by technology but liked to make easy things difficult through absurdly complicated contraptions. He received awards such as the Pulitzer Prize and died in 1970, leaving behind his wife and two sons.

1. RUBE GOLDBERG
CARTOONIST, SCULPTOR, AUTHOR, ENGINEER AND INVENTOUR

2. THE BEGINNING OF RUBE GOLDBERG
 Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg, was born to Max and Hannah Goldberg, on the 4th of
July 1883 in San Francisco, California. His siblings names were Garrett, Walter and Lillian
their was seven, but unfortunately three of them died.

3. EDUCATION
 Rube started drawing at the early ages of four. He went to Lowell high school and
graduated to the university of California, Berkeley

4. STARTING A FAMILY
 Rube married Irma Seeman at the age of 33, on October the 17th 1916. later on he had
two kids called George and Thomas. During world war two, Rube’s two changed their last
because of the hate around what he drew and said in his cartoons.

5. RUBES INVENTIONS
One of Rubes inventions was called “The self operating napkin”. When the soup spoon is
raised to the mouth pulling the string and thereby jerking the ladle which throws the cracker
past the parrot then the parrot flies after the cracker then tilts, upsetting the seeds falling into
the bucket putting extra heavy weight in the bucket then pulls the cord which opens and
lights the cigarette setting off a sky rocket, which causes the sickle to cut the string and allows
the pendulum with attached napkin to swing back and forth wiping the chin.

6. RUBE’S BOOKS
 Rube was the illustrator and author of Foolish Questions, Inventions, Is there a doctor in the
house?, Chain Reaction, Bobo Baxter and the complete daily strip and the best of Rube
Goldberg.

7. OPPOSITES
 Through-out his career Rube was fascinated by advances in technology. His inventions
were so interesting, because he did the complete opposite with invention in stead of
making difficult things easy he made easy things difficult.

8. AWARDS
 Rube’s awards were the Silver lady in 1959 and the Pulitzer prize in 1948 for his Editorial
cartoon “Peace Today” which conveyed a warning against atomic weapons.

9. THE END OF RUBE GOLDBERG
Rube sadly died of cancer on December 7th 1970 in New York leaving his two sons and lovely
wife behind.