¶ Dome House Grand Strategy (1)
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Dome House Grand Strategy: 1927-1977:
"As seen in the… Harvard Society of Contemporary Arts catalogue and the Harvard Crimson editorial of 1929, the structural mast of the 1928 Dymaxion House contained all its service mechanics–as did also the first full-scale prototype produced at Beech Aircraft, Wichita, Kansas, in 1944-45. Following general news publication of the latter… over 37, 000 orders for the house were received by mail, many with checks, all of which had to be returned because there was as yet no industry two manufacture and install these air-deliverable dwelling machines.
“Many distributors applied for sales franchises, but the electricians and plumbers who are everywhere exclusively licensed to connect houses to the water and electricity mains, said that in order to survive they would have to take apart all the Dymaxion Houses’ pressembled plumbing and electricity manifolds, which work would triple the cost of the mass-produced units and would be as illogical as would local electricians and plumbers being able to impose their taking each purchased automobile apart in the owner’s front yard and reassembling it before finally permitting its use by the owner.”
¶ Citations
- ACCOMMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.14; 20 Sep’76
