"And what does the sock do?" Sarah asked.
Call it the Crack Goldberg .
The name stuck. It defined a specific genre of engineering: crack goldberg
It was 3:17 AM on a Tuesday, and the basements of the world were wide awake. "And what does the sock do
This is the story of how a typo became a philosophy, and why engineers fear it. hit a domino
In a classic Rube Goldberg machine, a marble would roll down a ramp, hit a domino, which would trigger a toy car, eventually flipping the switch.