About the Author

After a successful career as a photographer/writer, and then as an award-winning product designer, Maynard Frank Wolfe founded Rube Goldberg Inc. with the artist's heirs in 1994. As President of Rube Goldberg Inc., Wolfe oversees the continuing use and publication of Rube's work and the official Rube Goldberg Web site at www.rubegoldberg.com, as well as the numerous Rube Goldberg™ Machine Contest events held by schools and colleges throughout America. Born in Maine and raised in San Francisco, Wolfe now lives in New York.