Tony,

Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist of the 1930s, whose comic strips
featured elaborate machines to accomplish simple goals.  He studied
engineering
at the University of California at Berkeley (to please his father) before he
responded to the higher calling of cartooning.  When I attended Berkeley in
1958-60 many of his cartoons were exhibited in the Hearst Mining Engineering
Building.

See <<http://www.rube-goldberg.com/>http://www.rube-goldberg.com/> for
biography
and examples.

Gordon

At 11:33 AM 1/15/99 , Tony Moss wrote:
>Rube Goldberg?  Is he the US equivalent of William Heath Robinson? 
>(inventor/illustrator of fantastic machines - in UK).

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