Is there anything more inventive that Rube Goldberg’s inventions? Here’s the original real deal:

Rube’s inventions have been appropriated from advertising to college contests. I was a toy inventor at Marvin Glass and Associates, where the game Mousetrap was invented. When I found a Rube Goldberg book in their library, the owners admitted to me that they had been inspired by the cartoonist for the famous game. To be fair, other early cartoonists from Clair Dwiggins to Heath Robinson had their own popular inventions.

The many “live” versions include the following scene in the 1930 movie Rube Goldberg’s Soup to Nuts written by Goldberg himself. In addition to this “invention” the movie remarkably was the film debut of the comedic trio that later became known as… The Three Stooges! Click to below to enjoy.

Recently the band OK Go had as their latest video a truly remarkable Rube Goldberg invention. Click below to marvel!