Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

Photos from the April 5, 1997 national contest

PRECISION TINKERING -- Doug Shoenenberger and Paul Calhoun of the University of Texas at Austin reset their winning entry in the National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. The ninth annual competition Saturday (4/5) at Purdue University asked students to build complicated machines to load a compact disc into a CD player and play it. The "Rube Goldberg Pit Crew" contraption performed the task in 35 steps. (Purdue News Service photo by Vince Walter)

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ONE MORE TIME -- Purdue University "Team Gluestick" member Alex Kruggel, a senior in construction engineering and management from Lafayette, resets the host team's entry Saturday (4/5) in the ninth annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. This year's task -- to be completed in no fewer than 20 steps -- was to load a compact disc into a CD player and play it . The University of Texas at Austin won the event at Purdue's Elliott Hall of Music. (Purdue News Service photo by Vince Walter)

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