When was rube goldberg born and died

By the end of his lifetime in December 7th , he was known as an inventor, sculptor, author, engineer and cartoonist and would make a mark in history for his extraordinary achievements. Visit Rube Goldeberg's official site. Early Education: At a young age, he loved drawing, tracing and being creative but this was discouraged by his parents.

In he graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco and in , he graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He was then hired as an engineer by the city of San Francisco but eventually quit to become a sports cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle but left only a year later to work with the San Francisco Bulletin.

In he moved to New York where he worked for several newspapers and by , soon found national acclaim as a copious artist. He married Irma Seeman in and had two children, Thomas and George. When World War II came along, he demanded his sons change their name for their protection as he was receiving hate mail due to his controversial political cartoons.

When was rube goldberg born

One son became a painter, the other a Hollywood writer and producer. In , Rube Goldberg gave up cartooning and wrote popular articles and stories but returned to editorial cartooning for the New York Sun. Later, he was employed by the New York Journal America until his retirement in where thereafter he made bronze sculptors.

His cartoon strips were popular but the work that gave him unforgettable lifelong fame was the character he created, Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts. This is now used as an expression to describe any system that's confusing or complicated and came about from Goldberg's illustrations of absurd machines. He used many simple subjects and made them humorous yet awfully complicated and tedious.

This included scratching insect bites, scrubbing your back in a bath, opening a window, collecting mail and finding a ball.