¶ Tensegrity
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Tensegrity:
“Engineers agree that tensegrity is operative but they are only permitted by their art to calculate the compression components. We will have to get hydraulic and pneumatics engineers to develop tensegrity accounting. There probably are compression limits in liquids but we don’t know what they are as yet; but there are no limits to tension structuring. The functions are limit and limitless: the hard compression of a stone vs. the low pressure of truck tires which are low pressure because the loads are evenly distributed.”
¶ Citations
- RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan’75
