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Categories: Mechanical engineering, Mechanisms (engineering), English phrases, Articles with short description, Rube Goldberg
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Rube Goldberg machine  Device Orchestra  Goldberg machine  Rube Goldberg device  Rube Goldberg invention
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A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction–type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overly complicated way. Wikipedia
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A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction–type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overly complicated way. Wikipedia
Deliberately complex contraption Wikidata
A comical, overcomplicated machine which performs a simple task. Wiktionary
IS A
machine
HAS QUALITY
complexity
NAMED AFTER
Goldberg
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Rube Goldberg machine
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Rube Goldberg machine
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Rube Goldberg machine
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Device Orchestra, Goldberg machine, Rube Goldberg device, Rube Goldberg invention, Rube Goldberg Machine, Rube Goldberg machines, Rube Goldberg system, Rubie Goldberg machine
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Rube Goldberg device

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