- 50 fantastic projects that show how to create your own fiendishly complicated contraptions
- Discover how to build the diverse components that make up a contraption
- Learn about science mechanics & the engineering secrets behind creations
- Build working models that demonstrate the basics
- 128 pages Named after the cartoonist famed for his drawings of convoluted contraptions Rube Goldberg has become shorthand for all manner of fiendishly complicated devices that are designed to perform extremely simple tasks. Discover the history theory & science behind these extraordinary contraptions & then put it all together to create your own marvellous machines. Each of the 50 projects consists of a large scale-diagram a shopping list of items needed planning tips detailed step-by-step instructions & problem solving strategies ensuring each outrageous apparatus is easy to construct no matter how complicated it looks. From cartoons to car adverts these elaborate contrivances have remained hugely popular for over 50 years now for the first time you can discover how to create such monumentally maze-like contraptions.