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Now This is a Rube Goldberg Machine
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Guermantes
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Frightening! I had to google Rube Goldberg -- in Australia and the UK it would probably be termed a "Heath Robinson contraption".
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Oh, I thought that was a universal term!
Two countries separated by a common language again. It's interesting how usage of both terms seem to have developed at exactly the same time.
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I was aware of both terms, and would not equate them. Heath Robinson might be more similar to what Macguyver does. Bang something together from unlikely materials for unlikely purposes and get it to work out of necessity and a paucity of resources at hand.
Rube Goldberg is more like what I've seen some engineers do with carefully designed equipment. Carefully design something that accomplishes the task only in the most arcane, complex, convoluted way beyond what one could imagine.
Rube Goldberg is more like what I've seen some engineers do with carefully designed equipment. Carefully design something that accomplishes the task only in the most arcane, complex, convoluted way beyond what one could imagine.
