One of the late cartoonist-inventor Rube GoldbergÕs most famous drawings depicts fictional Professor Butts and his invention for a self-operating napkin, drawn in 1931 and selected to be a U.S. Postage Stamp in 1995. Handout obtained by Reuters on May 14, 2020. Rube Goldberg Inc./Handout via REUTERS
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Caitlin Diel waited in the shower as her brother started their chain-reaction machine, dropping a marble into a tube that sent a toy train speeding, a deodorant stick flying and a stuffed bunny racing along a zip line to finally shoot a bar of soap into her hands.
Cheers erupted in their bathroom in Laurel, Maryland, where, after 106 failed attempts over six hours, the Diel children accomplished their goal and qualified to enter a video contest in the age of COVID-19: build a Rube Goldberg contraption that drops a bar of soap into someone's hands.
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