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...genuine nautical skills. She is co-inventor of a system for guiding torpedoes to their targets that was considered for use in World War II. This news conies from Intellectual Property Owners, Inc., which is celebrating National Inventors Day, Feb. 11, by publicizing the nation's 4 million Rube Goldbergs. Says Hedy, who has toyed with several inventions, "Improving things comes naturally...
...RUBE GOLDBERG...
...1920s he was widely syndicated, a national institution more or less on a par with his friends Ring Lardner, Will Rogers and Charlie Chaplin. His grand subjects were the quirks of everyday life, things like the difficulty of navigating through revolving doors.or reading a medical thermometer. But Rube Goldberg's zany imagination and zippy drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open...
...down Farmer Dick Shuttleworth with the phrase "Rube Goldberg contraption" when writing about his generation of methane gas from his farm's manure? He is providing power for himself, lessening pollution and, I suspect, getting some really decent fertilizer as a byproduct of his operation...
...plans to close for a month during December and January. To guarantee heat for their houses, consumers rushed out to buy wood-burning stoves and electric saws. One farmer who will not be touched by scarcities is Dick Shuttleworth, who lives near Muncie, Ind. He has put together a Rube Goldberg contraption that transforms his plentiful supply of manure into methane gas, which powers his lights, refrigerator and even his Ford pickup...