Heath+Robinson

=William Heath Robinson (1872 - 1944)=

seriously. He became famous for his drawings of ridiculously complex and very impractical, ricketty inventions, all designed to perform absurdly simple tasks. He was also a well-know book illustrator. His book illustrations were just as detailed as his cartoon-style machines. His name was also given to a secret and complex code-cracking machine invented in England during World War 2. His name is often used to describe a piece of equipment which seems unnecessarily complicated, looks as if it **might** work, but will probably fall to bits while doing so! We describe such a machine as **"a bit Heath Robinson".**
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 * Heath Robinson** poked fun at the machine age of the mid-1900's and the inventors who took their machine inventions so
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