Most legacies are complex and indirect, but Rube Goldberg's is literally so: the cartoonist is famous for his sketches of insanely complicated contraptions.
Not content to leave his devices in the realm of the two-dimensional, many subsequent inventors and tinkerers have created working "Rube Goldberg" machines whose complexity far exceeds anything the cartoonist ever envisioned.
In this gallery, we bring you some recent examples of Goldberg-inspired engineering madness, including several from the recent Rube Goldberg contest, an annual competition held at Purdue University.
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