Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 17—RIPLEY COUNTY — The 13th annual, regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest hosted by Genesis: Pathways to Success and the ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X One of the 20th century’s most prolific illustrators, Rube Goldberg is getting the comprehensive treatment for the ...

Anderson High School’s Rube Goldberg team came home with a regional win. Team members recently traveled to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to present their machine to judges, and they were ...

His name has become an adjective for anything too complicated for its own good, but cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s gifts extended far beyond his cockamamie inventions. Before “Rube Goldberg” became an ...

If you've seen the recent viral video where three little girls turn their stereotypically girly toys into an awesome Rube Goldberg machine – while a revamped version of the Beastie Boys song "Girls" ...

In 99 percent of cases, saying that an invention is an enormous waste of time would be a negative. In the instance of Rube Goldberg machines, it’s precisely the point. Heck, the more time it wastes, ...

They seem like vestiges of the past: mechanical devices full of gimmicks, elaborate color comics in Sunday papers, fanciful movie sets for Charlie Chaplin — and the Three Stooges. So the first ...

Cartoonist Rube Goldberg sketched some of the zaniest, complicated machines that have inspired countless real-life imitations. And no matter how many times you see one, their absurdly over-complicated ...

Purdue Society of Professional Engineers student Rube Goldberg team regained the national championship in 2014 with a zipper zipping machine. The Purdue machine was the first in over three decades of ...

A straight line may be the fastest route from point A to point B, but a 300-step contraption is considerably more entertaining. Rube Goldberg popularized the idea of completing simple tasks in the ...

When the staff at the Queens Museum learned that a traveling exhibition dedicated to Rube Goldberg was touring the country, they knew their museum needed to be a stop. They also knew the museum had to ...