An exhibit explores the broader career of the legendary illustrator, who also was a political cartoonist, inventor, engineer, humorist and author. (JTA) — When one hears the name Rube Goldberg, one ...

WAUKESHA -- Making complex machines to complete simple tasks. That's what more than 300 high school students were doing on Saturday in Waukesha. More than 20 teams from across the country competed in ...

Several teams of Purdue students are building the most complicated and often humorous machines to load a CD into a computer and run a program, or into a CD player and play music. The contest, free and ...

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 ...

Even if you don’t know his name, you have likely seen a Rube Goldberg machine in a television commercial, cartoon or movie. The complicated mechanical systems are often made of everyday items cobbled ...

Fremont Middle School students in Mundelein experimented recently on roller coaster gymnastics to to see how levers, inclined planes and pulleys would affect the speed of a vehicle and how integral a ...

Many people know Rube Goldberg as an adjective — a shorthand description for a convoluted device or contraption. But Rube Goldberg was a real person — one who earned a Pulitzer Prize for editorial ...

NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Video and photographs of past contests are available. Journalists will not be allowed on the stage with the machines during the competition, but they are welcome on stage before ...