What takes over 20 different steps in order to shine a shoe? Nothing, in a world other than the one created by the Rube Goldberg club. For the fourth year, several UA engineering students are working ...

GREENFIELD — While most teachers show their students how to simplify problems, Amy Fletcher likes to teach her students how to make the simplest tasks more complicated. The Greenfield-Central ...

The end result of this multi-step machine is to sweep dirt under the rug. submitted If, for some reason, you’re struggling with the concept of cause and effect, get yourself over to the Indiana State ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University students will put their creativity to the test for an annual competition that rewards complexity, ingenuity and originality. The 23rd annual regional Rube ...

Decades after Mr. Goldberg, a cartoonist, died, artists and engineers have found creative inspiration in his outlandish inventions. By Sam Corbin What’s the simplest way to open a can? Faced with this ...

I love Rube Goldberg Machines — those inefficient systems, full of convoluted twists and turns that use chain reactions to complete simple tasks.In one of my favorite examples, a tipped milk bottle ...