Rube Goldberg
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Film & TV
San Francisco, California, USA
Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg, known best as Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways.
Known for
- Wear It Well! — Self2006
- All Day Every Day1995
- The Ed Sullivan Show — Self1948
- Something for Nothing — Self1940
- Artists & Models — Self1937
- Soup to Nuts — Rube Goldberg - Opening Mail at the Yodel Inn (uncredited)1930
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Key facts
- Born
- Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg , ( 1883-07-04 ) July 4, 1883, San Francisco, California , U.S.
- Died
- December 7, 1970 (1970-12-07) (aged 87), New York City, U.S.
- Resting place
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York
- Alma mater
- UC Berkeley
- Occupations
- Engineer, sculptor, news reporter, cartoonist
- Known for
- Rube Goldberg machines
- Spouse
- Irma Seeman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. October 17, 1916</span>"}]]}'>1916 )
- Children
- 2, including George W. George
- Website
- rubegoldberg .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lucius
- Family name
- Goldberg
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Francisco
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- illustrator
- Employer
- New York Journal-American
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- caricature
- Official website
- rube-goldberg.com
- Image
- Rube Goldberg 1928.png
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- date of birth
- 1883-07-04
- date of death
- 1970-12-07
- Commons category
- Rube Goldberg
- Commons Creator page
- Rube Goldberg
- name in native language
- Rube Goldberg
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- contributed to creative work
- Collier's
- pseudonym
- Goldberg, Reuben Lucius
- subject has role
- eponym
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Rube Goldberg, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Something for Nothing (1940) Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor.
Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The cartoons led to the expression "Rube Goldberg machines" to describe similar gadgets and processes. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 1948, the National Cartoonists Society's Gold T-Square Award in 1955, and the Banshees' Silver Lady Award in 1959.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rube Goldberg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.