Rauschenberg contributed this work to the artist Jean Tinguely’s performance Homage to New York, which took place in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden on March 17, 1960. The event featured a monumental kinetic sculpture—a "suicide machine"—designed by Tinguely, with the help of Bell Laboratories engineer Billy Klüver, to implode with the push of a button. Rauschenberg contributed his own kinetic sculpture: a small electric heater that was ignited by gunpowder in the seventh minute of the performance, producing a flash of light and releasing a dozen silver dollars that spewed out into the audience.