Ruth goldberg biography

Rube Goldberg, who was born in San Francisco in 1883, was originally an engineer.

Ruth goldberg biography

He graduated from the College of Mining Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley in 1904.

For six months he mapped water and sewer lines until he could stand it no longer. He then took a lower-paying job cartooning at the San Francisco Chronicle.

"What he cared about most was if he made you laugh," said his granddaughter Jennifer George, whom we spoke to in 2018.

Her 2013 book, "The Art of Rube Goldberg," describes his extensive output of cartoons, writing and even sculpture, before his death in 1970.

Goldberg left California for New York in 1907 and was hired by the New York Evening Mail.

One of his early cartoons for the newspaper showed a badly injured man who had fallen from a 50-story building and a woman asking "Are you hurt?" The man replied "No, I am taking my beauty sleep."

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