How to turn the page of a book!


13 easy steps...

Here is my First Place winning machine...

The goal of the 1998 Rube Goldberg contest at the Museum of Scientific Discovery, Harrisburg, was to build a machine (with at least 10 steps) to turn the page of a book.

1. Turn the handle on a toy cash register to open the drawer.

2. The drawer pushes a golf ball off a platform, into a small blue funnel, and down a ramp.

3. The falling golf ball pulls a string that releases the magic school bus (carrying a picture of Rube Goldberg) down a large blue ramp.

4. Rube's bus hits a rubber ball on a platform, dropping the ball into a large red funnel.

5. The ball lands on a mousetrap (on the orange box) and sets it off.

6. The mousetrap pulls a nail from the yellow stick.

7. The nail allows a weight to drop.

8. The weight pulls a cardboard "cork" from an orange tube.

9. This drops a ball into a cup. (The hardest step! Water was too messy)

10. The cup tilts a metal scale and raises a wire.

11. The wire releases a ball down a red ramp.

12. The ball falls into a pink paper basket.

13. The basket pulls a string to turn the page of the book!

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