Rube Goldberg Machine Design Contest
 
 

Online Resources

Other Rube Goldberg Machine Design Contests and news from around the nation

The Official Rube Goldberg Website - http://www.rube-goldberg.com/
National Challenge for 2005 - http://www.rubegoldberg.com/html/contest.htm
University of Wisconsin Rube Goldberg Contest - http://www.uwm.edu/CEAS/rube/
Purdue University news - http://news.uns.purdue.edu/rube/rube.index.html

Rube Goldberg-Related Books



     Rube Goldberg: Inventions!
by Maynard Frank Wolfe
     Gizmos & Gadgets: Creating Science Contraptions That Work (& Knowing Why)
by Jill Frankel Hauser and Michael Kline

Videos of machines

2006 F.A.T. Chain Reaction - F.A.T. Homepage
Rube Goldberg-esque machines from Japanese college students - Google Video
Mousetraps video - YouTube

Photographs from previous years

Henry Houh's photo archive - http://www.blogzinger.com/v/rube2006/

Science and Technology Teaching Resources

Association of Science-Technology Centers - http://www.astc.org/
Journal of Technology Education - http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/
Museum of Science, Boston - http://www.mos.org/

Engineering Support

The Engineering Toolbox - http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/
HowStuffWorks.com - http://www.howstuffworks.com
MIT - http://web.mit.edu

Search Engines

Google - http://www.google.com
Yahoo! - http://www.yahoo.com
AltaVista - http://www.altavista.com




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