Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg is primarily known for the invention that bears his name, which is designed to perform simple tasks in convoluted ways, relying on components of the machine to cause a domino effect. Goldberg was also a popular newspaper cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Evening Mail, an animator of short films, and a producer of multiple cartoon series. He was a founding member of the National Cartoonists Society and won a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartoons in 1948. During the last decade of his life, Goldberg devoted much of his time to sculpture.