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Date of Birth
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04-July-1883
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Place of Birth
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San Francisco
(California, United States of America, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Peninsula, Area code 415)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg, Reuben Lucius Goldberg, Reuben L. Goldberg
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Profession
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Engineer, Journalist, Artist, Cartoonist, Inventor, Screenwriter, Actor, Film Director, Film Producer, Sculptor
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Reuben Garrett Lucius "Rube" Goldberg was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor.
He is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways, similar to Heath Robinson devices in the UK, as well as the Storm P devices in Denmark. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948 and the Banshees' Silver Lady Award 1959.
Goldberg was a founding member and the first president of the National Cartoonists Society, and he is the namesake of the Reuben Award, which the organization awards to the Cartoonist of the Year. He is the inspiration for various international competitions, known as Rube Goldberg Machine Contests, which challenge participants to make a complicated machine to perform a simple task.
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