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Fuller was born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller, a prosperous leather and tea merchant, and Caroline Wolcott Andrews. He was a grand-nephew of Margaret Fuller , an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement.
The Dymaxion car, c. 1933, artist Diego Rivera shown entering the car, carrying coat. The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller during the Great Depression and featured prominently at Chicago's 1933/1934 World's Fair. [1]
U.S. patent 2,220,482, Prefabricated bathroom, by Richard Buckminster Fuller, issued 1940. The inhabitants of the much-modified version of the house said that the bathroom [4] was a particular delight. The bathroom consisted of two connected stamped copper bubbles, built as four nesting pieces. The bottom piece is fully plated in tin/antimony ...
The March 1, 1943, edition of Life magazine included a photographic essay titled "Life Presents R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World", illustrating a projection onto a cuboctahedron, including several examples of possible arrangements of the square and triangular pieces, and a pull-out section of one-sided magazine pages with the map faces printed on them, intended to be cut out and glued to ...
A large video globe used in the IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth show (1999–2019) at Epcot theme park resembled Buckminster Fuller's earlier Geoscope proposal.. The Geoscope was a proposal by Buckminster Fuller around 1960 to create a 200-foot-diameter (61 m) globe that would be covered in colored lights so that it could function as a large spherical display. [1]
Dymaxion is a term coined by architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller and associated with much of his work, prominently his Dymaxion house and Dymaxion car. A portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension, [1] Dymaxion sums up the goal of his study, "maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input". [2]
R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, 1982, pp 183–185. [1] Edward Popko, Divided Spheres: Geodesics and the Orderly Subdivision of the Sphere , 2012, pp 22–25.
Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile inspired William McDonough to participate in his own "Living Archive". [ 7 ] [ 8 ] If somebody kept a very accurate record of a human being, going through the era from the Gay '90s , from a very different kind of world through the turn of the century—as far into the twentieth century as you might live.