IMP-15 Batch 2 — Corpus Evidence

Compiled 2026-08-30 for docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-30-organization-entity-pages-batch-2-design.md.

Every fact below is quoted or closely paraphrased from the cited anchor. Pages are authored from this file only. Candidates that failed the anchor test are listed under ## dropped and are not written.

Result: 18 of 20 candidates survived. 2 dropped (see below).

fuller-research-foundation

Anchors:

raw/repos/fuller-research-foundation-inventory.md

Facts:

The Fuller Research Foundation was R. Buckminster Fuller's own office; the corpus holds its c. mid-1956 inventory of reprints and overruns of published items about Fuller, Dymaxion, geodesic structures, and synergetic geometry.
That inventory is a typed bibliography of 1932–1956 press coverage listing 40 items in an A series and a B series.
The source survives as a six-page typed scan, transcribed and held in the repo at fuller_research_foundation_inventory/.

Links: topics/dymaxion-chronofile

Confidence: medium

geodesics-inc

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-08-15-fuller-and-the-military.md
raw/articles/2026-08-15-livingry.md
raw/articles/2026-08-11-fuller-archival-collections.md

Facts:

Fuller ran two companies in parallel; Geodesics, Inc. "handled government and military contracts" while Synergetics, Inc. took private industry.
Geodesics, Inc. designed the DEW Line radomes for the Cold War.
Fuller demonstrated a geodesic dome on the Pentagon lawn in 1949, and the Marine Corps went on to adopt his domes.
Fuller justified military funding by arguing it was the only available channel for advancing structural technology that would eventually become livingry.
Geodesics, Inc. correspondence survives in the Don Fusaro Collection at Virginia Tech (Ms2023-117) — material not found elsewhere.

Links: organizations/synergetics-inc; organizations/us-marine-corps; topics/fuller-and-the-military

Confidence: high

synergetics-inc

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-08-15-fuller-and-the-military.md
raw/articles/2026-06-30-geodesic-dome.md

Facts:

Synergetics, Inc. was the private-industry half of Fuller's two-company structure, paired with Geodesics, Inc. for government and military contracts.
Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. designed the 1958 Union Tank Car Company dome near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Howard designed the palmatron greenhouse at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, built 1960, which inspired the domes in the film Silent Running.
Howard designed the 1964 New York World's Fair pavilion dome, later redesigned as an aviary for the Queens Zoo in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Links: organizations/geodesics-inc; topics/geodesic-dome

Confidence: high

dymaxion-corporation

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-06-30-dymaxion-car.md

Facts:

Fuller formed the Dymaxion Corporation on March 4, 1933 — the day President Roosevelt instituted a banking moratorium.
Its workshop was the former dynamometer building of the defunct Locomobile Company at Tongue Point, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Fuller hired naval architect Starling Burgess; Isamu Noguchi also contributed to the design.
Three prototypes were built in 1933. The car was also called 4D Transport.
Fuller used his inheritance to finish the second and third prototypes, sold all three, dissolved the Dymaxion Corporation, and reiterated that the Dymaxion was never intended as a commercial venture.

Links: topics/dymaxion-car; people/isamu-noguchi

Confidence: high

fuller-houses

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-08-15-fuller-inventions-chronofile-bathroom-wichita.md
raw/articles/2026-06-30-architecture-classics-the-dymaxion-house-buckminster-fuller.md

Facts:

Fuller Houses Inc. issued 15,500 shares — roughly 9,000 to the public and officers, 1,000 to Beech — and Fuller retained veto power through special Class B shares.
The company was the corporate vehicle for the Wichita House, the Dymaxion dwelling built with Beech Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.
Fuller signed a two-year research contract with Beech Aircraft, which held an abundance of aluminum after World War II.
Two prototypes were completed in 1946 — the Barwise and the Danbury — though neither was assembled as a production house.

Links: organizations/beech-aircraft; topics/wichita-house

Confidence: medium

beech-aircraft

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-08-15-fuller-inventions-chronofile-bathroom-wichita.md
raw/articles/2026-06-30-architecture-classics-the-dymaxion-house-buckminster-fuller.md
raw/articles/2026-08-11-fuller-places-research.md

Facts:

Fuller partnered with the Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita, Kansas, for the 1945 Dymaxion dwelling prototypes.
Beech held an abundance of aluminum in the aftermath of World War II; Fuller signed a two-year research contract with the company.
The resulting house weighed under 3 tons and was made from the aluminum-copper alloys used in WWII aircraft.
Beech took 1,000 shares in Fuller Houses Inc.
The Wichita Dymaxion House prototype work with Beech ran 1944–46.

Links: organizations/fuller-houses; topics/wichita-house

Confidence: high

butler-manufacturing

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-06-30-dymaxion-deployment-unit.md
raw/articles/2026-06-30-buckminster-fuller-new-world-encyclopedia.md
raw/articles/2026-08-15-fuller-and-the-military.md

Facts:

In 1940 Fuller left Fortune magazine and started the deployment unit of the Butler Manufacturing Company in Kansas City.
Butler manufactured metal buildings used as radar shacks and as dormitories for U.S. flyers and mechanics.
The Dymaxion Deployment Unit was a 20-foot diameter corrugated steel circular hut — essentially a converted Butler grain bin adapted for emergency shelter.
The Army Signal Corps commissioned 200 units at $1,250 each in 1942; they were deployed to the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and Pacific theaters.
A wartime shortage of steel resulted in cancellation of the programme.

Links: topics/dymaxion-deployment-unit; topics/fuller-and-the-military

Confidence: high

kaiser-aluminum

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-08-15-fuller-and-the-military.md
raw/articles/2026-06-30-geodesic-dome.md

Facts:

A 200-foot, 78-foot-high gold-anodized Kaiser Aluminum dome was erected for the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park, Moscow, in 1959.
It received 3 million visitors in six weeks and was the site of the Nixon–Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate"; the Russians were impressed enough to buy the dome.
Kaiser Aluminum domes were constructed in numerous locations across the US, including Virginia Beach, Virginia, alongside auditoriums, weather observatories, and storage facilities.

Links: topics/geodesic-dome; topics/fuller-and-the-military

Confidence: high

ford-motor-company

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-08-15-geodesic-dome-history.md

Facts:

The Ford Rotunda dome (1953) is one of the landmark stages in the geodesic dome's history, alongside Bauersfeld's 1922 Zeiss planetarium, Fuller's Black Mountain College experiments, his 1954 patent, military adoption, and Expo 67.
The corpus treats the Ford Rotunda as the first large dome commission following Fuller's Black Mountain experiments.

Links: topics/geodesic-dome

Confidence: medium

museum-of-modern-art

Anchors:

raw/repos/three-structures-by-buckminster-fuller-in-the-garden-of-the.md
raw/repos/home-delivery-fabricating-the-modern-dwelling-exhibition-mus.md

Facts:

MoMA showed Three Structures by Buckminster Fuller in the Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York — an exhibition of Fuller structures installed in the museum's garden.
MoMA's Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling ran July 20 – October 20, 2008, and placed Fuller's prefabricated dwelling work in the history of factory-made housing.

Links: works/tetrascroll

Confidence: medium

whitney-museum-of-american-art

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-06-30-austin-texas-december-20-2007-models-of-triton-city-concept.md
raw/articles/2026-06-30-kenneth-snelson.md
raw/articles/2026-06-30-ruth-asawa.md

Facts:

Models of Fuller's Triton City concept, held by the LBJ Library, were on loan to the Whitney Museum in New York.
Kenneth Snelson's Sun River (1967) is in the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Ruth Asawa's work is held in the Whitney's collection, and her wire sculptures appeared several times in the Whitney Biennial.

Links: topics/triton-city; people/kenneth-snelson; people/ruth-asawa

Confidence: medium

us-marine-corps

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-08-15-geodesic-dome-history.md
raw/articles/2026-06-30-buckminster-fuller-new-world-encyclopedia.md
raw/articles/2026-06-30-r-buckminster-fuller-paintings-bio-ideas.md
raw/articles/2026-08-15-livingry.md

Facts:

After the geodesic dome was patented in 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps began using the domes for air-lifted housing.
The Marine Corps became an early and enthusiastic adopter of the geodesic dome.
The Marine Corps commissioned thousands of small geodesic domes, delivered to the military around the world by helicopter.
Larger domes went into service as weather stations and long-range radar stations.

Links: topics/geodesic-dome; topics/fuller-and-the-military; organizations/geodesics-inc

Confidence: high

nc-state-school-of-design

Anchors:

raw/repos/student-publication-school-of-design-index.md

Facts:

The School of Design at NC State published the Student Publication of the School of Design from Vol. 1 (1951) through Vol. 25 (1977).
The Harrye Lyons Design Library compiled a 136-page cumulative author/subject index to that run in 1977, held in the corpus in full transcription.
Henry L. Kamphoefner was Dean of the School of Design, which became a hub of the mid-century modernist culture in which Fuller's geodesic and Dymaxion ideas circulated.

Links: people/henry-l-kamphoefner; people/duncan-stuart; works/student-publication-school-of-design-index

Confidence: medium

nasa

Anchors:

raw/articles/2026-06-30-joseph-clinton.md
raw/articles/2026-08-11-modern-fuller-applications.md
raw/articles/2026-08-15-geodesic-dome-history.md

Facts:

NASA contracted and published Joseph Clinton's researched papers on the mathematics of geodesics in 1971.
NASA has developed spherical tensegrity robots for disaster response, a direct modern application of Fuller's tensegrity principle.
Pacific Domes supplied a 1,000 sq ft geodesic dome on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, for NASA's HI-SEAS long-duration Mars habitat simulation.

Links: people/joseph-clinton; concepts/tensegrity; organizations/pacific-domes

Confidence: medium

macmillan

Anchors:

raw/repos/pilot-for-spaceship-earth.md
raw/repos/regular-polytopes.md

Facts:

Macmillan published Athena V. Lord's Pilot for Spaceship Earth, a narrative biography of Fuller aimed at younger readers, built from interviews with friends and relatives, public records, and attendance at Fuller's lectures.
Macmillan published the 1963 second edition of H. S. M. Coxeter's Regular Polytopes, the standard treatment of regular polytopes in four and higher dimensions and a mathematical touchstone for Fuller's geometry.

Links: works/pilot-for-spaceship-earth; works/regular-polytopes

Confidence: medium

garland-publishing

Anchors:

raw/repos/artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller.md
raw/repos/artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller-vol-1.md
raw/repos/artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller-vol-2.md
raw/repos/artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller-vol-3.md
raw/repos/artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller-vol-4.md

Facts:

Garland published The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller, the four-volume documentary set covering his work.
Volume 1 covers The Dymaxion Experiment, 1926–1943; Volume 2 covers Dymaxion Deployment, 1927–1946.
Volume 3 covers The Geodesic Revolution, Part 1, 1947–1959; Volume 4 covers The Geodesic Revolution, Part 2, 1960–1983.
The set is the principal published documentary edition of Fuller's artifacts in the corpus.

Links: works/artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller

Confidence: high

doubleday

Anchors:

raw/repos/buckminster-fuller-to-children-of-earth.md

Facts:

Doubleday published Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth in 1972, a picture book pairing Fuller's spoken words with Cam Smith's photographs.
Its sections on pattern integrity and geometry are drawn from Robert Snyder's film Buckminster Fuller on Spaceship Earth, used by permission.

Links: works/buckminster-fuller-to-children-of-earth

Confidence: medium

princeton-architectural-press

Anchors:

raw/repos/r-buckminster-fuller-world-man.md

Facts:

Princeton Architectural Press published R. Buckminster Fuller: World Man, built around the typescript of Fuller's extemporaneous "World Man" lecture of October 5, 1966.
That lecture was the inaugural Kenneth Stone Kassler Memorial Lecture at the Princeton School of Architecture.
The volume was edited by Daniel Lopez-Perez with essays by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Stan Allen, and pairs the lecture with a glossary of Fuller's lexicon, Geoscope blueprints, and a postscript comparing Fuller and Louis I. Kahn.

Links: works/r-buckminster-fuller-world-man; people/daniel-lopez-perez

Confidence: high

dropped

mit-press — Fails the Tier D publisher anchor rule. No Fuller title in wiki/works/ is attributed to MIT Press, so there is no raw/repos/ book pointer to anchor a page. The corpus mentions of "MIT Press" are bibliography lines in person articles (Peter Pearce's Structure in Nature, Loretta Lorance, Felicity D. Scott) describing books those authors published elsewhere — not Fuller titles.
reinhold — Fails the Tier D publisher anchor rule. The only publisher-sense occurrence is a bibliography line for Van Nostrand Reinhold inside raw/articles/2026-06-30-peter-jon-pearce.md (Pearce's Experiments in Form, 1980; Polyhedra Primer, 1978); no raw/repos/ book pointer exists. The bare name also collides with two people in the corpus — Reinhold Martin (essayist, wiki/people/reinhold-martin.md) and Reinhold Niebuhr — so a reinhold page would be ambiguous as well as unanchored.