Alarm Clock
date: label: Date made
content: circa 1970
name: label: depicted
content: Butts, Lucifer Gorgonzola
label: original artist
content: Goldberg, Rube
notes: label: Description
content: <I>Alarm Clock</I> by Rube Goldberg, circa 1970. This non-working, sculpted model signed by Rube Goldberg was crafted [during the 1960s] to replicate a cartoon from the series <I>The Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts</I> that he drew for between 1914 and 1964.
label: Description
content: Inscription: <I>At 6 a.m. garbage man picks up ashcan, causing mule to kick over statue of Indian warrior. Arrow punctures bucket and ice cubes fall on false teeth, causing them to chatter and nip elephant's tail. Elephant raises his trunk in pain, pressing lever which starts toy maestro to lead quartet in sad song. Sentimental girl breaks down and cries into flower pot, causing flower to grow and tickle man's feet. He rocks with laughter, starting machine that rings gong and slides sleeper out of bed into slippers on wheels, which propel him into bathroom where cold shower really wakes him up.</I>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: classified as
content: Clocks
label: Subject
content: Comics
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.23502
label: accession number
content: 1972.289709
label: accession number
content: 289709
label: catalog number
content: GA.23502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Model
label: Object Name
content: Sculpture
label: Object Type
content: sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 24 in x 58 in; 50.8 cm x 60.96 cm x 147.32 cm