Goldberg is best known for his cartoons of absurdly complicated machines performing simple tasks, which gave rise to the term "Rube Goldberg machine."

An engineering graduate of UC Berkeley, he created an estimated 50,000 cartoons over his career.

• He won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

• He was a founding member and the first president of the National Cartoonists Society, whose top honor, the Reuben Award, is named after him.