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William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives. [1]
William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives. [1]
Oct 13, 2016 · A museum dedicated to British artist, satirist and illustrator William Heath Robinson is due to open this weekend. The William Heath Robinson Trust has been raising funds for years in an...
One of the automatic analysis machines built for Bletchley Park during the Second World War to assist in the decryption of German message traffic was named “Heath Robinson” in his honour. It was a direct predecessor to the Colossus, the world’s first programmable digital electronic computer.
William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) Heath Robinson is a household name, and a byword for a design or construction that is ‘ingeniously or ridiculously over-complicated’ (as defined by The New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998, page 848). Yet, he was also a highly distinctive and versatile illustrator, whose work could touch at one extreme ...
Apr 11, 2017 · Known for his complex imaginary contraptions, W. Heath Robinson also produced exquisite illustrations for editions of Shakespeare's works.
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Robinson contributed futuristic cartoons to the 1919 Pears' Annual which imagined the world of 1969, and was the perfect illustrator for The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm ( 1933) by Norman Hunter, with its benignly comic Mad Scientist.
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