Purdue University team wins Rube Goldberg Machine contest

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A team of Purdue University engineering students has won the annual Rube Goldberg Machine contest with an absurdly complex contraption for changing the batteries in a flashlight.

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