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Explanations:
Strange Machines
Rube Goldberg / Heath Robinson machines
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Rube Goldberg was an US cartoonist who created
cartoon pictures of complicated machines to do simple tasks
(similar to Heath Robinson's work). There are quite a few sites
with samples of Rube Goldberg's work on the Internet that are
in a format that can be blown up for use in the classroom. Check
out this site for some sample pictures. I've not had much look
finding any Heath Robinson examples on the Net although you'll
probably be able to find some examples in books in your local
library.
Click here to find some examples
of Rube Goldberg's machines.
The cartoons are great for use in as part of
the Literacy Hour strand of explanations. You can get your children
to write explanations of how the machines work.
I've drawn
my own example machine. Click here to
see it.
Louise Wilson
writes: 'I just found a Heath Robinson site. I thought you might like it. His are so much
more subtle than the rube goldberg ones, although i still want
the dining room setting thing in my house!! Your students might
like to know there's a rube goldberg machine competition off that
web site you give as a link.' Thanks Lousie!
[Thanks to Helen Burrell for updating the link when
the original one stopped working]
That site no longer exists. The Walker Museum in Liverpool has some images of his work online.
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