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Rube Goldberg: A Staple of Engineering
Jake Bakovsky
What is a Rube Goldberg?Two meanings:The machineThe man behind it
Who is Rube Goldberg?US CartoonistEngineer
Automatic Toothpaste Dispenser
Purdue University Annual Rube Goldberg Contest•Task provided•Uses 20 entities or more•Winners need to use as many unnecessary parts as possible
University of Wisconsin
Sponsors of Rube Goldberg ContestBAE systemsBosh Group IncBoseBPLockheed MartinLutron Electronics…and much more
Components Of a Rube Goldberg.
Use your imagination!
Relevance to EngineeringUse of simple machinesPhysics PrinciplesTrigonometry Kinetic MotionVelocityVectors Equilibrium
First Entity
Development
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My Rube GoldbergMy Video
Works Cited C, Thomas. Example of a Rube Goldberg that opens a curtain. Youtube. Web. 2 Mar. 2010. <http://www.chilloutzone.de//
player.swf?b=10&l=197&u=ILLUMllSOOAvIF//P_LxP92A42lCHCeeWCejXnHAS/>. This video shows an example of a
Rube Goldberg someone made that goes throughout they’re entire house. It is similar to the one that I will need to design to
dispense pet food to my hungry rabbit.
Felix, Kathy. “Rube Goldberg.” Rube Goldberg. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Mar. 2010. <http://www.rubegoldberg.com/>. This website
has information on the contests at Perdue University and about Rube Goldberg the person. It helps me relate the fact that
students use the principle of energy transfer and engineering in Rube Goldbergs and compete against each other.
Frost, James. “Ok Go- This too shall pass -RGM version.” Syyn Labs. Youtube. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. <http://www.youtube.com/?
v=qybUFnY7Y8w>. This music video is an extremely large and well constructed Rube Goldberg that is very elaborate. This
video will help me generate ideas for when I make my own Rube Goldberg.
Works Cited George, George W, and Thomas R George. Rube Goldberg. New York, NY: King Features Syndicate, 1983. Print. This book
has various cartoons and ideas that Rube Goldberg drew in his lifetime
Haury, David L, and Peter Rillero. “Perspectives of Hands on Science Teaching.” NCREL. The ERIC Clearinghouse for
Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education., 30 June 1995. Web. 8 Mar. 2010. <http://www.ncrel.org/s///////.htm>.
This website is sponsored by a teaching organization and is written by scholarly authors. They are analyzing the effects of
different learning strategies.
Wolfe, Maynard Frank. Rube Goldberg Inventions. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Print. This book describes the
biography of Rube Goldberg, various cartoons he drew, and example of students making Rube Goldberg’s of their own. it is
very illustrative and provides information that I will need to write my paper.
Zside. “Japanese Rube Goldberg Contest.” 11 Mar. 2006. Youtube. Web. 2 Mar. 2010. <http://www.youtube.com/?
v=1kvdq8cRNBM>. This video is of a Japanese Rube Goldberg contest to fix a Ramon noodle dinner. It is extremely intricate
and involves many transfers of energy. The basic physics problems are evident in this video.
Works Cited "Teams to Vie for Brightest Idea at Regional Rube Goldberg Contest." AScribe Science News
Service, Jan 30, 2009 pNA. Science Resource Center. Gale. 18 March 2010
http://galenet.galegroup.com
"Purdue Students Excel in Rube Goldberg Inefficiency Competition." AScribe Science News
Service, March 6, 2006 pNA. Science Resource Center. Gale. 18 March 2010
http://galenet.galegroup.com
"Statics and Equilibrium." Science of Everyday Things. Online. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Science
Resource Center. Gale. 18 March 2010 http://galenet.galegroup.com