Noun
Heath Robinson (plural Heath Robinsons)
(chiefly UK, attributive) Anything ingenious (and often complex) but absurdly impractical or even useless.
Another was an odd Heath Robinson contraption that invites you to turn a lever. Source: Internet
In the course of his work Heath Robinson also wrote and illustrated three children's books, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902), Bill the Minder (1912) and Peter Quip in Search of a Friend (1922). Source: Internet
Robinson's cartoons were so popular that in Britain the term "Heath Robinson" is used to refer to an improbable, rickety machine barely kept going by incessant tinkering. Source: Internet
Heath Robinson even sketched a 'machine to express criticism of statues', which parodied such vandalism, which continued round the country for the next few years. Source: Internet
For infoboxcheck 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. Source: Internet
Jack Copeland, "Machine against Machine", pp. 64-77 in B. Jack Copeland, ed., in citation The Wrens nicknamed the machine the " Heath Robinson ", after the cartoonist of the same name who drew humorous drawings of absurd mechanical devices. Source: Internet