I believe you are refering to Rube Goldberg who created mahines that while being very complicated and having hundreds of moving parts, accomplished pretty damn near absolutly nothing. Usually these machines were used to cycle balls around through chutes, conveyer belts, tubes, swings, and around back again. An example of one of these machines is at the Technology Museum in downtown San Jose.<P>Damn I'm good<P>------------------
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