Contraptions

I’ve always enjoyed mad and totally pointless inventions that involve a chain of events that finally culminate in the achievement of some simple task. One such invention was featured in the Metro “newspaper” this morning and I was delighted to see that the inventor was reported to have said,

“this will be the first in a series of eco-machines, which perform simple, energy-saving tasks in complex ways. I’m trying to make it as absurd and useless as possible.”

One has to admire a man who puts such effort into something which he himself acknowledges as totally futile. Camus would be going wild!

W. Heath Robinson

Rube Goldberg