Here we list examples of __fabulous__ Rube Goldberg machines that might act as inspiration for our work:
- Zoom - On the special quarantine episode of Mythic Quest|Mythic Quest Ravens Banquet on Apple TV+ the cast use a Zoom call at the end to create a Rube Goldberg Machine going through multiple user screens just to deliver a crisp to one of the members in the zoom chat. It includes various contraptions on the way including balls, dominoes and even someone turning their video calling on at the last second to create the effect - wikipedia 
- Australia—cartoonist Bruce Petty depicts such themes as the economy, international relations or other social issues as complicated interlocking machines that manipulate, or are manipulated by, people.
- Austria—:de:Weltmaschine des Franz Gsellmann|Franz Gsellmann worked for decades on a machine that he named the ''Weltmaschine'' ("world machine"), having many similarities to a Rube Goldberg machine.
- Belgium - Léonard (comics) occasionally contains such machines (e.g. a giant egg-cracking device for regular-sized eggs).
- Brazil - a TV Series from 1990 to 1994 had the intro based on a Rube Goldberg Machine. The show, ''Rá-Tim-Bum'', was created by Flávio de Souza and was about Science for children.
- Denmark—called ''Storm P maskiner'' ("Storm P machines"), after the Danish inventor and cartoonist Robert Storm Petersen (1882–1949).
- France—a similar machine is called ''usine à gaz'', or gasworks, suggesting a very complicated factory with pipes running everywhere and a risk of explosion. It is now used mainly among programmers to indicate a complicated program, or in journalism to refer to a bewildering law or regulation (''cf''. Stovepipe system).
- Germany—such machines are often called ''Was-passiert-dann-Maschine'' (''"What happens next machine"'') for the German name of similar devices used by Kermit the Frog in the children's TV series ''Sesame Street''.
- India—the humorist and children's author Sukumar Ray, in his nonsense poem "Abol tabol", had a character (Uncle) with a Rube Goldberg-like machine called "Uncle's contraption"(''khuror kol''). This word is used colloquially in Bengali language|Bengali to mean a complicated and useless object.
- Italy—Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci described an alarm clock-esque device which, utilizing a slow drip of water, would fill a vessel which then operated a lever to wake the sleeper.
- Japan—"Pythagorean devices" or "Pythagoras switch". ''PythagoraSwitch'' (ピタゴラスイッチ, "''Pitagora Suicchi''") is the name of a TV show featuring such devices. Another related genre is the Japanese art of chindōgu, which involves inventions that are hypothetically useful but of limited actual utility.
- Spain—devices akin to Goldberg's machines are known as ''Inventos del TBO (tebeo)'', named after those that several cartoonists (Nit, Tínez, Marino Benejam, Frances Tur and finally Ramón Sabatés) made up and drew for a section in the comic book magazine ''TBO (comics)|TBO'', allegedly designed by some "Professor Franz" from Copenhagen in Denmark.
- Switzerland—Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Swiss artists known for their art installation movie ''Der Lauf der Dinge'' (''The Way Things Go'', 1987). It documents a 30-minute-long causal chain assembled of everyday objects, resembling a Rube Goldberg machine.
- Turkey—such devices are known as ''Zihni Sinir Projeleri'', allegedly invented by a certain Professor Zihni Sinir ("Crabby Mind"), a curious scientist character created by İrfan Sayar in 1977 for the cartoon magazine ''Gırgır''. The cartoonist later went on to open a studio selling actual working implementations of his designs.
- United Kingdom—the term "Heath Robinson contraption" gained dictionary recognition in 1912, referring to the fantastical comic machinery drawn by British cartoonist and illustrator W. Heath Robinson, which predates Rube Goldberg's introduction of his machines. There are similarities between some of Heath Robinson's contraptions and the Rube Goldberg example shown and described above. See also Rowland Emett, active in the 1950s. The TV show ''The Great Egg Race'' (1979 to 1986) also involved making physical contraptions to solve set problems, and often resulted in Heath-Robinsonian devices.
- United States—Tim Hawkinson has made several art pieces that contain complicated apparatuses that are generally used to make abstract art or music. Many of them are centered on the randomness of other devices (such as a slot machine) and are dependent on them to create some menial effect.
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