Rube Goldberg Machine Designs
William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was born in the north London suburb of Hornsey Rise. As an artist, he became known as an imaginative illustrator of books, well able to catch and express the dark-minded mood of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems or the dreamlike melancholy of William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night.
From Illustrating Books to Drawing Contraptions
However, the artist often regretted the day in around 1896 when his amusing and utterly ludicrous drawings were taken up by The Sketch newspaper as a new form of humor. Heath Robinson’s whimsical absurdities quickly caught on, and caught on so firmly that he eventually had to give up all hope of being taken seriously as an artist.
What probably appealed to readers was the underlying absurdity in Robinson’s explanation of how cheddar was turned into blue-veined cheese. This was done by a contraption that included a huge bugle which was blown to encourage a horde of maggots to hurl themselves out of cages and bury themselves in an enormous round of cheddar.
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