heath robinson

[Boggy]

earlier i used the phrase "heath robinson" to describe something and it set me thinking about it!! so i googled him and have found some great pictures

[IMG]http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/encyclopediaimages/h/he/heath_robinson_wwi.png[/IMG]

[IMG]http://wsgfl2.westsussex.gov.uk/aplaws/dt/projects/webquests/inventors/images/heath2.gif[/IMG]

[IMG]http://wikid.wikispaces.com/file/view/heath_robinson_pancake.jpg/30497271/heath_robinson_pancake.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://www.daimler.co.uk/history/images/heathrobinson/paintshop.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1230/760352140_cacb751295_o.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/Heath%20Robinson%20Cartoom%20Museum.jpg[/IMG]

[trillian]

I particularly like the last one about deceiving invaders about the tide :)

[Ewan]

I remember someone making some mockups of some of his machines back in the seventies and being shown on some tv show. Wonderfull things.

If you like this sort of stuff, google for Rube Goldberg machines very similar and there are even competitions in Japan to build things of this ilk.

[David Drew]

When I was a lad living in Coventry I remeber some of his contraptions being made and displayed - working - in a shop window. I was fascinated by them & could never work out what they did - which is not surprising as they didn't actually do anything at all.

Great stuff!!