![]() Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Fuller gained a formidable reputation as an early researcher of renewable energy sources. His Inventory of World Resources, Human Trends and Needs was created to serve as an information bank for the World Game. His World Game® utilizes a large-scale Dymaxion Map for displaying world resources, and allows players to strategize solutions to global problems, matching human needs with resources. His Dymaxion™ Map was awarded the first patent for a cartographic system and was the first to show continents on a flat surface without visible distortion, appearing as a one-world island in a one-world ocean. Later, he documented the feasibility of a dome two miles in diameter that would enclose mid-town Manhattan in a temperature-controlled environment, and pay for itself within ten years from the savings of snow-removal costs.įuller originated the term " Spaceship Earth". Fuller is most famous for his 20-story dome housing the U.S. The world’s largest aluminum clear-span structure is a geodesic dome which houses the "Spruce Goose" at Long Beach Harbor. ![]() Marine Corps hailed the geodesic dome as "the first basic improvement in mobile military shelter in 2,600 years". Corrugated metal domes have given shelter to families in Africa, at a cost of $350 per dome. Plastic and fiberglass "radomes" house delicate radar equipment along the Arctic perimeter, and "radome" weather stations withstand winds up to 180 mph. The geodesic dome is a breakthrough in shelter, not only in cost-effectiveness, but in ease of construction. patents authored 28 books received dozens of major architectural and design awards including, among many others, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects created work which found itself into the permanent collections of museums around the world circled the globe 57 times, reaching millions through his public lectures and interviews.īuckminster Fuller is best known for the invention of the geodesic dome –the lightest, strongest, and most cost-effective structure ever devised. In 1968 he became a university professor and retired in 1975. He was research professor at Carbondale, Southern Illinois University, from 1959 to 1968. He examined a vectorial system of geometry, energetic-synergetic geometry, based on the tetrahedron which provides maximum strength with minimum structure.įuller spent a few summers in the late forties and early fifties teaching at the Black Mountain College. Twice expelled from Harvard University, he received 47 honorary doctorates in the arts, science, engineering and the humanities. ![]() ![]() R Buckminster Fuller was referred to as an architect, inventor, scientist, engineer, mathematician, educator, philosopher, poet, speaker, author, consultant, economist, futurist, transcendentalist, designer. Born: 12 July 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts, USAĭied: 1 July 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA ![]()
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