Goldberg, Rube

Logically, if a response has an effect on some other system, then it must be a factor of that other system. It is not at all unusual for variables to have this dual identity as response and factor. In fact, most systems are seen to have a rather complicated internal subsystem structure in which there are a number of such factor-response elements (see Figure 1.4). The essence of responses as factors is illustrated in the drawings of Rube Goldberg (1930) in which an initial cause triggers a series of intermediate factor-response elements until the final result is achieved. 

What is a Rube Goldberg device Give an example. 

What is a Rube Goldberg device Give an example. [See, for example, Colliers (magazine), 21 June 1930, p. 14.]... 

Heath Robinson device W. Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was an English humorous artist. A Heath Robinson device is the English term for a complex instrument that looks as if it had been designed by a committee. A Heath Robinson device usually works well but may be held together by chewing gum and string. In the context of state-of-the art flow cytometry, this term requires no further explanation. See also Rube Goldberg device. 

Rube Goldberg device Reuben Lucius Goldberg (1883-1970) was an American humorous artist. A Rube Goldberg device is the American synonym for a Heath Robinson (see above) device. Mr. Goldberg and Mr. Robinson may or may not have known each other, but surely would have enjoyed each other s company. 

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Slogging through a description of the blood-clotting system makes a fellow yearn for the simplicity of a cartoon Rube Goldberg machine. 

Irreducibly complex systems like mousetraps, Rube Goldberg machines, and the intracellular transport system cannot evolve in a Dar-... 

Insofar as beauty is derived from that which surrounds us, the mechanical bond cannot be ignored. It is applied and admired in society, art, and nature alike, and its beauty is held as both an ancient and modem sentiment. The development of modem tools and machinery, many of which we consider beautiful today (think of a sporty car or a delicate Rube Goldberg or Heath Robinson machine) could not have been accomplished without the mechanical bond. Likewise, interlocked rings can be found in thousands of works of art dating through antiquity. Perhaps most surprising to the casual reader will be the predominance of mesoscopic mechanical interlockings in Nature, even within the cells of our own bodies. 

One seizure revealed a veritable Rube Goldberg machine consisting of a boiler, a heat exchanger, a vacuum assembly and other components (with parts list, instructions and assembly methods) for a sophisticated hashish oil apparatus which was scheduled to be shipped to the Middle East. 

However, the coffin of Prout s hypothesis was nailed shut around 1865 by the careful analytical studies of Jean Servais Stas. Figure 308 depicts a magnificent apparatus for total analysis of silver iodate (Agl03). How could one possibly argue with a Rube Goldberg-looking apparatus like that The gasometer... 

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