Students Win Rube Honor; Purdue Entry Most 'Inefficient'
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › April 13, 2008
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A team of Purdue University engineering students headed by a Cedarburg resident won a national contest by building a machine that uses 156 steps to assemble a hamburger, a bun, a couple of vegetables and condiments.
The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is named for the late Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper cartoonist. His name "became synonymous with any simple process made outlandishly complicated," according to Encyclopedia Britannica.See the full content of this document
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Students Win Rube Honor; Purdue Entry Most 'Inefficient'
Drew Wischer was captain of the 17-member team from Purdue, which has won t...
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