Favourite "Heath Robinson" type of contraption?

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"Heath Robinson type of constuction" is for want of a better description.
You know the kind of thing: You start a ball bearing rolling which knocks over a domino which in turn hits something else and so on.
Totally pointless but kind of fun.

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The Honda contraption

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Okay, it´s an advert. Never the less, rather nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGngcQb_0qg

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chromigula 3 months ago

See also: Rube Goldberg machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

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TSD66A 3 months ago

Thanks chromiqula, Rube Goldberg is the american version of Heath Robinson I guess. I´ll add him as a tag.

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chromigula 3 months ago

From what I'm reading, the phrase "Heath Robinson Contraption" predates "Rube Goldberg Machine" by about 18 years, though you're spot on with him as the American version. To be honest, though, I'd never heard of Heath Robinson until today, and I've enjoyed looking at various RG machines since I was young. As soon as I saw your description, though, I knew what we were talking about.


The Mythbusters build a Holiday Contraption: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOcHP2u6Cs0

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This topic was started by TSD66A TSD66A has 12,601 Grupie Points on August 29th, 2008. 4 grupies have voted on one or more of the 2 answers.

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