Motor City Machine bills itself as a “a giant version of the game Mousetrap,” “a Rube Goldberg Machine of pulleys, dominoes, whizzing balls” and more created by teams from all over metro Detroit. They ...

If, as the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once asserted, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, at “The Art of Rube Goldberg”—an entrancing new exhibition at ...

GLASSBORO, N.J. -- Rowan University welcomed 50 students -- 8th graders from Estell Manor Middle School and 9th and 10th graders from Atlantic County Institute of Technology -- at Rowan Hall, and the ...

A team from St. Olaf College, a private liberal arts school in Northfield, Minn., won the 22nd annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University on Saturday (March 28). St. Olaf, with ...

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, ...

The name Rube Goldberg has long been synonymous with any overly-built contraption played for laughs that solves a simple problem through complicated means. But it might surprise you to learn that the ...