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Rube Goldberg

1883 - 1970

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Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), better known as Rube Goldberg (), was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The cartoons led to the expression "Rube Goldberg machines" to describe similar gadgets and processes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rube Goldberg has received more than 2,104,864 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Rube Goldberg is the 4,262nd most popular writer (down from 3,627th in 2019), the 5,653rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,831st in 2019) and the 459th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rube Goldberg ranks 4,262 out of 7,302. Before him are James Blish, Yu Dafu, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Guzal Sitdikova, Richard Pococke, and Joachim Ringelnatz. After him are August Ahlqvist, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Krishan Chander, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Roy Jacobsen, and Vladislav Khodasevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Rube Goldberg ranks 175. Before him are Şemsettin Günaltay, Pedro Parages, Paul Götz, Ahmet Ali Çelikten, Fred Pentland, and Joachim Ringelnatz. After him are Huang Fu, D. S. Senanayake, Feodor Gladkov, Élie Lescot, Tom Moore, and Gheorghe Argeșanu. Among people deceased in 1970, Rube Goldberg ranks 170. Before him are Alfred Sturtevant, Anna Louise Strong, Jérôme Carcopino, Terry Sawchuk, Adhemar Pimenta, and Conrad Nagel. After him are James B. Donovan, Vince Lombardi, Abdelaziz Ben Tifour, Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Orhan Kemal, and Pierre Mac Orlan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rube Goldberg ranks 5,653 out of 20,380. Before him are William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Country Joe McDonald (1942), James Blish (1921), Axeman of New Orleans (null), J. William Fulbright (1905), and Milton Berle (1908). After him are Big Bill Broonzy (1903), Joe Lando (1961), M. C. Gainey (1948), Phil McGraw (1950), John Wesley Powell (1834), and Desmond Child (1953).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Rube Goldberg ranks 459. Before him are Theodore Roszak (1933), Charlaine Harris (1951), Erica Jong (1942), Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863), Bill Bryson (1951), and James Blish (1921). After him are Edna Ferber (1885), Diane Disney Miller (1933), Ivanka Trump (1981), Philip Arthur Fisher (1907), Mike Resnick (1942), and Helen Prejean (1939).

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