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      Rube Goldberg’s Nutty Inventions Neatly Skewered Our Technocratic World

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      His name has become an adjective for anything too complicated for its own good, but cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s gifts extended far beyond his cockamamie inventions.

      The Daily Beast

      Updated Jul. 11, 2017 6:25PM ET / Published Nov. 24, 2013 6:45AM ET 

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      Early Work

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      The Ancient Order of the Glass House

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      Inventions

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      Mike and Ike

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      A Rube Goldberg Invention

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      Boob McNutt's Ark

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      Pultizer Prize

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      Merry Christmas From the Goldbergs

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      One More Invention (because, Like Rube, we just couldn't stop)

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