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Heath Robinson" is British English for "Rube Goldberg"
The concept of a complicated machine to achieve a simple task, commonly known as a Rube Goldberg Machine, was actually first conceived by English cartoonist and illustrator William Heath Robinson and are commonly called Heath Robinson contraptions.
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During the Falklands War, The British improvised a chaff despenser on the Harrier and due to its complexity called it the "Heath Robinson chaff modification"
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What Americans call a "Rube Goldberg device", Brits call "Heath Robinson"
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Heath Robinson" is British English for "Rube Goldberg"
