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World’s most awesome musical instrument

Sting ray — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:27:34 +0000

I bet you’ve never seen something like this before and it truly is a unique piece of engineering. Check out the World’s most awesome musical instrument that works with marbles!

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Wooden Calculator

BeachBum — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:40:17 +0000

Matthias Wandel made a wooden binary marble adding machine. Nerd alert!

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Nostalgia: the Rube Goldberg Machine

BeachBum — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:52:33 +0000

Reuben Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) was an cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor.

He is well known for the Rube Goldberg contests, which challenge participants to make a complex machine to perform a simple task.

It’s not too often that auto parts look sexy, but this 2-minute Honda ad highlighting the famous Rube Goldberg’s hilarious concepts does the job. The Rube Goldberg machine is legendary as Goldberg’s inventions go. If you’ve never seen “Cog,” it’s a 2-minute commercial following the progress of a real Rube Goldberg contraption. It was created in April of 2003. The short video took more than 600 takes before every little step of the machine worked perfectly. True Rube Goldberg followers would never edit a video to fake a perfectly functioning machine.

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