Mar. 17—RIPLEY COUNTY — The 13th annual, regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest hosted by Genesis: Pathways to Success and the Batesville Community School Corporation was held on Saturday, Feb. 24, ...

Decades after Mr. Goldberg, a cartoonist, died, artists and engineers have found creative inspiration in his outlandish inventions. By Sam Corbin What’s the simplest way to open a can? Faced with this ...

CHICAGO -- A whimsical machine can help you get ready in the morning. Slowly. A team of students from the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers took the top prize at the Rube Goldberg Machine ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Philadelphia Contraption Contest, coming in April, teaches kids that life is ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A team of Purdue University engineering students has won the annual Rube Goldberg Machine contest with an absurdly complex contraption for changing the batteries in a ...

David Cannon (from left), Alex Weaver and Matt Miller react to a flawless run of their Purdue Society of Professional Engineers/Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers machine at the Purdue local ...

Purdue's Association of Mechanical and Electrical Technologists team works its contraption during the annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest regional Saturday in the Purdue Armory. The team took first ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Caitlin Diel waited in the shower as her brother started their chain-reaction machine, dropping a marble into a tube that sent a toy train speeding, a deodorant stick flying and a ...

NEW YORK and MONETT, Mo., March 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Rube Goldberg Institute, a family-run nonprofit that uses the artist's invention cartoons as a springboard for its work in STEM and ...