buckminster fuller

     

Tolkien helped the editors define "hobbit"; Murray Gell-Mann, the term "quark", & this man, "dymaxion"

Trivia about buckminster fuller

  • He designed the geodesic dome for the United States Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal
  • In 1959 Khrushchev wanted this dome designer to come over & teach his engineers a thing or two
  • This inventor & engineer was depicted with a geodesic dome-shaped head
  • This American architect designed the U.S. pavilion at Expo 67
  • In 1953 he was commissioned to design a rotunda dome in Dearborn, Michigan
  • (Sarah stands in front of a map) To display the globe without distorting the shapes and sizes of the continents, the Dymaxion map was created by this mathematician and geodesic dome designer.
  • During WWII this Geodesic Dome inventor headed mechanical engineering for the Board of Economic Warfare
  • Known for his geodesic dome, he once designed a dome to cover all of Midtown Manhattan
  • In 1932 this engineer & dome designer founded the Dymaxion corporation
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit) The portable factory-assembled Dymaxion house was developed by this 20th century inventor

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