00:00 Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist known for drawing complex and elaborate machines, which inspired the term "Rube Goldberg machine."

02:31 Rube Goldberg, born in 1883, was an engineer turned cartoonist who drew complex machines and cared most about making people laugh, leading him to quit his engineering job and pursue cartooning in New York.

04:54 Rube Goldberg gained fame as a cartoonist by drawing Foolish Questions, which were a hit in the early 1900s and led to him becoming a nationally syndicated cartoonist.

07:14 Rube Goldberg gained fame as a cartoonist for his Foolish Questions, but he also created other cartoon inventions and characters like "I'm the Guy" and Boob McNutt.

09:49 Rube Goldberg's invention cartoons were labeled with letters and each part had a corresponding explanation, making them even cooler, and he also created the character Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butz based on two boring professors he had in college.

12:10 Rube Goldberg's invention cartoons included a machine called the Barotic that was actually a figment of his imagination, but some people became obsessed with finding documentation of it, and it served as a commentary on how technology can complicate simple processes.

14:38 Rube Goldberg was also a political cartoonist who won a Pulitzer for his work, but received death threats and had his family's name changed due to the controversial nature of his cartoons.