Saturday, November 21, 2009 East Central Illinois

UI's bright idea a winner at Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

By Mary Schenk
Monday, February 23, 2009 8:03 AM CDT

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick? Or perhaps it was Miss Scarlet in the conservatory with the rope.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick? Or perhaps it was Miss Scarlet in the conservatory with the rope.

You'll have to go to the University of Illinois Engineering Open House to see which of them replaced the incandescent light bulb with a more energy-efficient light-emitting design.

Say what?

Replacing the bulb was the theme of the 27th annual Purdue University regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, named for the late cartoonist who drew whimsical machines with complex mechanisms to perform simple tasks.

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