Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist in the early part of the twentieth century. You know all of those ridiculously complex mouse traps in Tom And Jerry? They are all based on the cartoons of Rube Goldberg. In Israel, the engineers at Technion constructed a Rube Goldberg machine as a ‘better Menorah lighter’ for Hanukkah. You can watch the whole ridiculously complex process below:
Catch all of that? Neither did we the first thirty times we saw it. That is the reason why we went frame by frame to explain exactly what just awesomely happened.