Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg graduates from the College of Mining. Goldberg brings engineering concepts and humor to a nationwide audience through his syndicated newspaper cartoons depicting characters using elaborately complicated machines to complete simple tasks.

Goldberg’s drawings earn him numerous awards, but it is the decidedly sober subject of the atom bomb that earns him the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for editorial cartooning. Today, in honor of his ridiculously complicated contraptions, engineering students across the country compete every year in Rube Goldberg machine-building competitions.

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