Alarm Clock
Object Details
- Description
- Alarm Clock 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 The Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts that he drew for between 1914 and 1964.
- Inscription: 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- circa 1970
- ID Number
- GA.23502
- accession number
- 1972.289709
- 289709
- catalog number
- GA.23502
- depicted
- Butts, Lucifer Gorgonzola
- original artist
- Goldberg, Rube
- Object Name
- Model
- Sculpture
- Object Type
- sculpture
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20 in x 24 in x 58 in; 50.8 cm x 60.96 cm x 147.32 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
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- Art
- classified as
- Clocks
- Subject
- Comics
- Record ID
- nmah_1195660
