Tag: Rube Goldberg
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Purdue Sets World Record with Largest Rube Goldberg Machine
Congratulations to the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team. This weekend, the team broke its own world record for the Largest Functional Rube Goldberg Machine. The invention took only 300 steps to blow up and pop a balloon.
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The World’s Most Complicated Rube Goldberg Machine
It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. In its precisely executed review of history, “The Time Machine,” a Rube Goldberg contraption…