Buckminister Fuller

Buckminster Fuller had a very tough life. When he was growing up he was cross eyed, unpopular and bullied at school. He was different in every respect. When the teacher gave the class tooth picks and told them to make shapes he was the only child in the whole class to form a triangle. The teacher called all the other teachers in to examine this. Fuller was surprised that they hadn’t figured this out themselves. It seemed like he did not fit anywhere. In classes, although he received straight A’s he disp

The geodesic dome is a breakthrough in shelter, not only in cost-effectiveness, but in ease of construction.(4) In 1957, a geodesic dome auditorium in Honolulu was put up so quickly that 22 hours after the parts were delivered, a full house was comfortably seated inside enjoying a concert.

In 1968 there were 2,000 geodesic domes in more then 40 countries world wide. He patented the geodesic dome in 1969. He kept travelling the world this whole time ,to lecture, for a total of 49 times. When he lectured to university students he could go for eighteen hours at a time. This would normally seem extraordinarily long but the students were glued to their seats. No one could take there eyes of this man. There was a saying that, “You could not trust anyone over the age of 30, other then Bucky” This was stated by everyone in the 1960’s. During the next twenty years he talked about his ideas of the world because he realized that not everyone in the world would live in a geodesic dome.

Here is where Bucky wanted to build the Geodesic dome. He thought that if he had the right ideas then people in this school would help him assemble it. In his classes he taught the students about geodesic domes and how to assemble them as well as the art of the triangle. He stated that the geodesic dome was the lightest, strongest, and most cost-effective structure ever devised. He stated that it was able to cover more space without internal supports than any other enclosure.(2)and becomes proportionally lighter and stronger the larger it is.

After this he decided to make a car. A dymaxion car, a car with three wheels that would fit up to eleven people in it. Bucky hated things that were not needed. He believed that a fourth wheel was not necessary, for it stopped, accelerated, went faster and turned faster then any other car on the market at the time. He received wide recognition for this car and was in fact banned from riding it in the city because there were sometimes up to five hours of traffic jams due to people stopping to look at it and question him about it. With this car he received more speeding tickets then any other person in the world. He went up to hundred and ten miles an hour, which was unheard of in those days. Then something tragic happened. He was, of course, supposed to show investors this car so he could put it out on the market. But when the investors were in the car it crashed, rolled over killing one and injuring two. That was the end of the ‘revolutionary car.’

Fuller originated the term “Spaceship Earth.” His dymaxion map, invented a couple years before he passed away, was awarded the first patent for a cartographic system and was the first to show continents on a flat sur

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