RUBE GOLDBERGBy: Joy Masek

FamilyMother: Hannah Goldberg

Father: Max Goldberg

Brothers & Sisters (oldest to youngest and only living): Garrett Goldberg, Walter Goldberg and Lillian Goldberg.

Wife: Irma Seeman Goldberg

Kids: George W. George and Thomas George

Grandchildren: Linda Tai, John George, Larry George, Jennifer George and Laurie George.

ChildhoodOn the 4th of July, 1883, San Francisco, Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg was born. His parents, mother, Hannah (Cohen) and father, Max Goldberg were both Jewish. Reuben was the third of 7 children, 3 of his siblings died as children. Goldberg started tracing drawings when he was 4 years old, and first took drawing lessons when he was 11. Rube’s father worked as a police and fire commissioner in San Francisco and encouraged a engineering career for Reuben.

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How Rube became famousRube went to University of California in Berkeley, and graduated in 1904, with a degree in Engineering. He was hired by the city of San Francisco in the Water and Sewers Department as a engineer. In 6 months he resigned the job to join San Francisco Chronicle to do sport cartooning. The next year, he did the cartoons with San Francisco Bulletin and he stayed there till he moved to New York in 1907, where he got a job as a cartoonist with New York Evening Mail. The New York Evening Mail was syndicated to the McClure Newspaper, making Rueben’s cartoons more seen. In 1915 he was being called by the paper as America's most popular cartoonist and earning $25,000 per year. He had quite a few ongoing cartoon series some were Mike and Ike (they look alike) Boob McNutt, What Are You Kicking about, Foolish Questions, Lala Palooza, Telephonies and The Weekly Meeting of the Tuesday Women’s Club. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg

ParentingReuben married a woman named Irma Seeman Goldberg, and they had two boys, George W. George and Thomas George. When WWII was happening, Rube’s sons changed their last names to George because they wanted to get rid of Jewish people. After they made a company called ‘Rube Goldberg Incorporated’ or RGI to keep the Goldberg name going. Reuben died age 87, in 1970. Irma died later in 1990, age 95.

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Things Inspired By Rube Goldberg:◦The ‘Rube Goldberg machine’. Rube is the namesake and his cartoons

inspired these machines. Many cartoons such as ‘Tom and Jerry’ include Rube Goldberg machines.

◦Mouse Trap ◦The Incredible Machine game series◦Sesame Street: What Happens Next Machine w/ Kermit the Frog⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cog2a3YeDMMAlphabet Rube Goldberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B17OvPYM040Things Rube Made:• In 1930, Reuben wrote a film called ‘Soup To Nuts’. The main

stars of the movie were Ted Healy and The Three Stooges.

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One of Rube Goldberg's Cartoons

Rube made many cartoons that showed machines that did tasks. He never made any of his toons.

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