3.  He was born July 4 th, 1883 in San Francisco California.  Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and an inventor.  He died December 7 th 1970.

4.  A simple machine is a device that helps make work easier.  Some simple machines are a wheel, a pulley, a lever, a screw, and an inclined plane.  There are six total simple machines.

5. IIt is a simple machine that completes a task in a complex way. HHis drawings usually contained an animal that helps with the task. MMany things are put together in his contraptions to do a simple task.

6.  When you slip on ice, your foot kicks the paddle, lowering the finger, the snapping turtle extends its neck to bite the finger, opening the ice tongs and dropping a pillow, allowing you to fall on something soft.

7. As you sit on the cushion, you force air through a tube which starts an ice boat, causing a lighted cigar to explode the balloon. The dictator, hearing loud report, thinks he's been shot and falls over backward on the bulb which snaps a picture.

8. TThis is a Rube Goldberg invention for a Honda Commercial using only car parts. hhttp://www.youtube. com/watch?v=Zww WtbMfEFE