W. Heath Robinson
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William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist who drew whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.
An illustration from The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902)
Robinson motifs on "Fairyland on China" nursery jug for Midwinter Pottery, c.1928
Title page of A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, c. 1914 (reprint)
Rube Goldberg
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Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor.
W. Heath Robinson
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Goldberg in 1929
Goldberg with family, 1929
Goldberg in an issue of The Moving Picture World, 1916
Advertisement (1916)