Unlike Goldberg’s inventions, Robinson’s depend entirely on actual machinery (no flies or seals involved). They teeter and sprawl, always looking to be the brink of falling apart. During World ...

The creators of the “Wallace and Gromit” films have acknowledged that many of Wallace’s inventions owe a great debt to those of Heath Robinson. “Pets’ Playground” and “Communal ...

But the building itself is simple, elegantly north-lit and pleasingly workmanlike, the plainness of the timber-lined interiors allowing the teetering complexity of Heath Robinson’s inventions to ...

ART met science at a celebration of the 150th birthday of a illustrator known for his unlikely inventions and contraptions. The Heath Robinson Museum organised a whacky fair for families to enjoy ...

Heath Robinson was best-known for the complicated and outlandish inventions he portrayed. Richard Bromell, of Charterhouse auctioneers, said: "It is a typically mad, mad drawing by William Heath ...

Heath Robinson created a comical series of "How to..." books, the first looking at life in a tower block He would also create illustrations of over-elaborate gadgets and inventions in order to ...

Keen to experiment and progress, they were fascinated with gadgets and came up with a plethora of wacky inventions ... made by Shipley film-maker Abbe Robinson. The three back-to-back houses ...

Part of the comedy in a Heath Robinson drawing lies in the gap between ... the public are invited to design their own inventions and stick them on a display board. My favourite was a pencil ...

Heath Robinson's drawings of complicated inventions saw his name enter the lexicon in 1912 as a synonym for absurdly ingenious devices. Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park and Olympic Cauldron ...

More than 50 original humorous pieces by Heath Robinson, who drew to raise morale during the war, are on display at Mottisfont. The exhibition, which is on until April 14, also includes audio ...