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Rube Goldberg

American cartoonist
Also known as: Reuben Lucius Goldberg
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Rube Goldberg (born July 4, 1883, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died December 7, 1970, New York, New York) was an American cartoonist who satirized the American preoccupation with technology. His name became synonymous with any simple process made outlandishly complicated. Rube Goldberg was born the son of a San Francisco police and fire commissioner, who guided him into engineering at the University of California. He received a B.S. in 1904 and took a job designing sewer...

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