The Professor (dish washing machine)
date: label: Date made
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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>The Professor turns on his think-faucet and dopes out a machine for washing dishes while you are at the movies. When spoiled tomcat (A) discovers he is alone he lets out a yell which scares mouse (B) into jumping into basket (C), causing lever end (D) to rise and pull string (E) which snaps automatic cigar lighter (F). Flame (G) starts fire springler (H). Water runs on dishes (I) and drips into sink (J). Turtle (K), thinking he hears babbling brook babbling, and having no sense of direction, starts wrong way and pulls string (L), which turns on switch (M) that starts electric glow heater (N). Heat ray (O) dries the dishes. If the cat and the turtle get on to your scheme and refuse to cooperate, simply put the dishes on the front porch and pray for rain.</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: Popular Entertainment
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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.23488
label: catalog number
content: 23488
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: 19 cm x 49.2 cm; 7 1/2 in x 19 3/8 in