Index
1A-bomb, 104--105,160
2 Architects, 51, 62--63, 64, 71, 126, 128, 130, 141--143, 165,168
3 Bauhaus, 62—63
4 Bear Island, 8--12, 67--68,114, 137, 140,182
5 Becquerel, Henri, 3
6 Beech Aircraft company, 102--105
7 Butler Manufacturing Company, 93--100
8 Coolidge, Calvin, 44
9 Continuous Man, 161
10 Depression, the Great, 70--76, 82
11 DEW, 131--132
12 Dirigible, 52--54, 80
13 Dirigible house, 53--59
14Dymaxion, 66; Bathroom, 85--87; Car, 76--83; Map, 90-
151691; House, 91--92; Deployment Unit, 92--100
17 Einstein, Albert, 42, 59--60, 114--115
18 Electron microscope, 162--163
19 Energy, 45, 55--56, 72, 107, 114, 156; as quanta, 42, 117--119; slaves, 88--89
20 Expo 67,164-165
21 Fuller, Alexandra (daughter), 24, 37--38
22 Fuller, Allegra (daughter), 45--47, 67--68, 83, 114, 137, 140
23 Fuller, Anne Hewlett (wife), 20,37-38,45-48,63-64,72, 83, 100, 114, 136--137, 140
24 Fuller, Arthur Buckminster (grandfather), 4
25 Fuller, Caroline (mother), 13--14
26 Fuller, Margaret (great-aunt), 4--5
27 Fuller, R. Buckminster: Annapolis, 22--23; ancestors, 4—5; Armour Company, 19, 38; Bear Island, 8--12, 67--68; Black Mountain College, 127; Board of Economic Warfare, 100; Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, 151--154; Chicago, 40--41, 47—49; comprehensive anticipatory design science, 139--143; dirigible house, 53--59; Dymaxion Bathroom, 85--87; Dymaxion Car, 76--83; Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 93--100; Dymaxion House, 66, 91—92, 102--104; Dymaxion Map, 90--91; editor of Shelter, 73--75; Education Automation, 154—156; eyesight problems, 5--6, 145; Expo 67, 164—165; first inventions, 10--12; floating pyramid city, 169--171; Fortune, 87--90; 4-D house, 59--65, 102; Fuller Research Foundation, 120; geodesic dome, 120—136; geodesic dome patent, 128, 135; Harvard University, 14--19, 151--154; hearing problems, 145; interest in architecture, 50--52; jet engine, 26--28; Kabul Dome, 1--2, 134; Kaiser Dome, 134—135; Kelley-Springfield Company, 38; life or death decision, 45--47; meat-lugger, 19; mill-hand, 18; Milton Academy, 6--7, 106; Navy life, 20--28, 106; New York City, 68, 71, 74--76; New York World’s Fair, 163--164; Nine Chains to the Moon, 84—85; No More Secondhand God, 152—154; octet truss, 125--126, 129--130; Phelps Dodge Company, 83, 85—87; seaplane rescue device, 21--22; Southern Illinois University, 140--141, 154--156, 166; Stockade Company, 39--41; tensegrity, 113--125; Triennale Prize, 133—134; University of Bristol, 158--160; vector geometry, 106--119; Wichita House, 103--105, 120; World Science Decade, 156--158
28 Fuller, Timothy (ancestor), 4 Fuller, Thomas (ancestor), 4
29 Geodesic, 118,120
30 Geodesic dome, 120—136, 138,
- 145.
- 147,164-165
31 Geometry of nature, 23, 24, 106,163
32 Hewlett, James Monroe, 20,
38; concrete block, 38--41
33 Hitler, Adolf, 44, 96--97, 101, 104
34 Housing, 39--40, 48, 49, 51--54, 57--62, 73, 75--76, 93--96, 98--99, 101--104,
- 146.
- 147, 166--167, 169--181
35 Influenza epidemic of 1918, 36--37
36 Japan, 96, 99--100, 104r-105, 168--180
37 Kabul, 1-2,134
38 Kaiser, Henry J., 134—135
39 Lindbergh, Charles, 41—42
40 Livingry, 143
41 Morley, Christopher, 71, 91--93
42 Mussolini, Benito, 43
43Nine Chains to the Moon, 84--85
44No More Secondhand God, 152--154
45 Radio, 24—25, 56
46 Radome, 132
47 Roentgen, Wilhelm, 3
48 Rotunda, Ford, 129--130
49 Shoriki, Masutaro, 168--169
50 Southern Illinois University,
51 139--141,154-155
52 Soviet Union, 43, 97, 99, 135,
- 147.
- 150
53 Spheres, closest packing, 107--110,112
54 Stock market, 69--70, 82
55 Structural Study Associates, 73--74
56 Synergy,55
57 Technocrats, 72
58 Tensegrity, 113--124,125
59 Tetrahedron, 113, 115--119, 121--126,170,183
60 Vectors, 111--112,115,117
61 Weaponry, 143
62 Wilson, Woodrow, 24
63 World War 1,19-20
64 World War II, 96--105,131
65 Octet truss, 129--130
66 Zeppelin, Graf, 52, 80
68 DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD
69 R BUCKMINSTER FULLER & SHOJl SADAO. CARTOGRAPHERS
70EDGES OF ICOSA TRIANGLES EQUAL TO 63’ 26
71.3.806 NAUTICAL MILES
728% JET AIRCRAFT HOURS
737414 CONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT HOURS 7 SHIP DAYS
75Thu entire inap and its component part* and method of projection are fully protected hy International Copyright Convention and patentv and muvt not lie reproduced without permission of l< Rucliminster Fuller
76This edition of Fuller Projection licensed by him under hiv V S Patent 2.393.67ft. Canadian Patent 44H.O(J4 and his copyrights of 1041. 1944. 1953 This edition copyrighted hy him 1954.