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BumRushDaShow

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3. He did "Mouse Trap" too

Reply to Prof. Toru Tanaka (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 26, 2025, 07:53 AM

Nov 2025

and it wasn't until decades later when I learned the name/principle of something like that - a "Rube Goldberg Machine".

(and only now discovered that Goldberg was a cartoonist)

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