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Radome Sequence:
"This is one of the geodesic radomes tested for the Arctic. They are made out of polyester fiberglass and the diamond-shaped, paneled pieces are made with bolt holes in their adjacent flanges. All the mathematics must be done very accurately to permit these pieces to be interchangeably bolted together. We hold our spherical trigonometry calculations to an accuracy of 1/1000 of a second of circular arc. The geodesic radome structures go up in an average of 14 hours each in the Arctic.
"Our Air Force Radomes were installed in the Arctic mostly by Eskimos and others who had never seen them before. The mass production technology made assembly possible at an average rate of 14 hours each. One of these radomes was lent by the U.S. Air Force to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for an exhibition of my work in 1959-1960. It took regular building trades skilled labor one month to assemble the dome in New York City.
“American labor fought a great and worthy battle to win the working man’s share of the synergetic productivity of industry. Labor’s battle proved doubly worthwhile because it inadvertently brought about mass consumption. Without mass consumption you cannot maintain mass production. You cannot have the mass”
