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The Technion Menorah Lighter

By (@JimCiscell) on December 10th, 2012

Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist in the early part of the twentieth century. You know all of those ridiculously complex mouse traps in Tom And Jerry? They are all based on the cartoons of Rube Goldberg. In Israel, the engineers at Technion tried to complete a ‘better Menorah lighter’ for Hanukkah. You can watch the whole process below:

Catch all of that? Neither did we the first thirty times we saw it. That is the reason why we went frame by frame to explain exactly what just awesomely happened.

Step 1. Helium Balloons Knock Down Dominoes

Step 2. Dominoes Release a Fan Cart

Step 3. A String is Pulled Which Fires a Ball

Step 4. The Balls Starts a Racecar

Step 5. The Racecar Sets off a Pulley

Step 6. The Pulley Drops Balls Into a Drain

Step 7. They Weight Fires Another Ball

Slide 8. Another Balll is Released on a Track

Step 9. The Ball Pushes a Spaceship

Step 10. The Spaceship Launches a Toy Truck

Step 11. The Truck Starts a Bicycle Wheel

Step 12. The Spinning Wheel Shoots a Ball

Step 13. The Ball Starts a Computer

Step 14. The Robotic Arms Lights a Candle

Step 15. The Robotic Arm Then Lights Candles

Jim Ciscell

@JimCiscell

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