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Geodesic Structure:
"Emulating the compound curvature trussing the atom’s dynamic structure comprised of great-circle forces, our geodesic structure, though not inventing the principles, employs them for the first time in man-made structure. This was a patentable invention. . .
“In our geodesic structures, the surface of a sphere is interlaced by an omni-three-way grid of great circles which always uniquely intercept one another in such a manner that everywhere the surface areas described by the intersections are triangular. As triangles are nondistortable, this intersecting, if substantially structured, represents a rigid trussing of the spherical surface. If, between each of the vertexes or intersections of the great circles occurring in the surface of the sphere, we construct chords, or straight lines, these lines must fall below the surface between their surface terminals. The lines converging at any one vertex all leading away below the point on the surface must form a convex intersection or pyramidal point. As we press against any convex vertex, where the other ends of the lines are elastically restrained, the vertex will subside and the lines will tend to form a flat plane.”
@ Cite IDEAS & INTEGRITIES, PREVIEWS, P, 216, 1 Apr’49
