Our Handy Bottle-Opener
date: label: Date made
content: October 25 (no year date)
label: date made
content: October 25, unknown year
name: label: original artist
content: Goldberg, Rube
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description
content: Camera-ready pen and ink drawing by Rube Goldberg for his comic invention series <I>The Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts.</I> Goldberg drew for the series between 1914 and 1964.
label: Description
content: Cartoon text: <I>Elephant (A) eats peanuts (B) - as bag gets lighter weight (C) drops and spike (D) punctures balloon (E) - explosion scares monkey (F) - his hat (G) flies off and releases hook (H), causing spring (I) to pull string (J), which tilts tennis racket (K) - racket hits ball (L), making it spin around on attached string, thereby screwing corkscrew into cork (M) - ball hits sleeping dog (N) who jumps and pulls cork out of bottle with string (O) - my, how simple!</I>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Rueben L. Goldberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.23486
label: catalog number
content: 23486
label: accession number
content: 1972.299186
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Object Type
content: drawing
label: Other Terms
content: Drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 53.4 cm; 6 11/16 in x 21 in