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 ...

William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is best known for his crazy inventions configured in immensely elaborate and comic illustrations. Perhaps less well known is his output of advertising work ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The building of a museum to house the work of William Heath Robinson will start this autumn. This great illustrator of absurd contraptions has bequeathed a curious legacy. Heath Robinson is now ...

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 ...

Heath Robinson, born in Finsbury Park in north ... He would also create illustrations of over-elaborate gadgets and inventions in order to send up the absurdity of human nature and its fondness ...