The $532 million, 59,000-member Zeal Credit Union has sponsored an attempt to get the largest Rube Goldberg machine ever into the Guinness Book of World Records.

The late Rube Goldberg, a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist for newspapers in both San Francisco and New York, drew roughly 50,000 cartoons during his career, many depicting zany machines that relied on chain reactions to accomplish some goal (as illustrated above), according to Rube Goldberg, Inc., an educational not-for-profit organization formed to further science education through Goldberg's work.

The Zeal Credit Union Incredible Science Machine will deploy more than a half million objects, both dominoes and other common household items, across 5,000 square feet at the Michigan Science Center in Detroit, according to a joint press release from the credit union and science institution. Project leader Steve Price, a student at Michigan State University, will launch the machine around 3:00 p.m. on July 18, the release said, anticipating it would take about 30 minutes for the entire reaction to complete.