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Geodesic Structure:
"Though superficially similar in patternings to radiolaria and flies’ eyes, geodesic structuring is true invention. The radiolaria collapse when taken out of water. Flies’ eyes will not provide structural precedent of man-occupiable structures.
“The processes of engineering, up to the moment of introduction of my invention of geodesic structures, are predicated upon the stress analysis of individual beam and column behaviors, as separate components and thereafter upon comprehensively organized beams, columns and cantilevers as a solid compressional over-all integrity of cohesion, aided here and there by tensionally exaggerated sinews–tension being subordinate and local. Therefore, engineering as academically constituted in 1951 could in no way predict the associated behaviors of geodesics, in which any one, several or many of the components could be removed without, in any way, jeopardizing the structural integrity cohesion of the remaining primary structure.”
