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The World's Most Complicated Rube Goldberg Machine


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Rube Goldberg competition

David Cannon, Alex Weaver, and Matt Miller (L-R) react to their Purdue Society of Professional Engineers/Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers machine at the Rube Goldberg competition.

Purdue University photo / Mark Simon

At an annual contest for Rube Goldberg machines at Purdue University, the home team wins with a contraption that smashes the requirement to perform a simple task using at least 20 steps—by hundreds more steps, setting a new world record.

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