Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband Robinson W. Heath
Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband Robinson W. Heath Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is Britain's "Gadget King"--master of the art of creating madcap contraptions that made use of ropes, weights,…
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Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband Robinson W. Heath
Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is Britain's "Gadget King"--master of the art of creating madcap contraptions that made use of ropes, weights, and pulleys to perform relatively simple tasks. A true cartoonist, Robinson had a way of getting at the heart of the matter while simultaneously satirizing it mercilessly. Although he trained as a painter and also worked as a book illustrator, Robinson developed his forte with drawings of gadgets that parodied the absurdities of modern life.
The perfect husband, for example, will take advantage of two simple attachments to the garden roller to tend the lawn He became a household name in Britain, and his popularity continues today.The cartoons in Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband provide sage advice for how to succeed in almost all aspects of married life--and, of course, it often features a complicated Robinsonian gadget.