Index
3 American Institute of
4 Architects, 80
5 American Scholar, The, 112-113
6 Andrews, Grandmother, 13, 16, 18, 20, 36
7 Applewhite, E. J., 134-136
8 Armour and Company, 34-35, 37-38, 42, 44, 48, 57
9 Astor, Vincent, 59-60
10 atomic power, 139
11 Bear Island (Maine), 13, 15-16, 17-19, 28, 33, 60, 81, 95, 102,113, 133
12 Beech Aircraft, 108
13 Bellinger, Pat, 50---51
14 BIG PICTURE, the, 7, 20, 36, 38, 52, 68, 72, 73, 129
15 Board of Economic Warfare, 106,107
16 Cambridge (Massachusetts), 28, 124
17 Capone, Al, 67, 70
18 Carbondale (Illinois), 121, 134,
19 135
20 Celotex Corporation, 68
21 Chicago (Illinois), 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 79, 80, 92, 93, 94
22 Chronofile, 74, 110, 113, 140
23 Cloud Nine, 136
24 Comprehensivist, 8, 72
25 Cornell University, 117
26 Dartmouth College, 117
27 Davenport, Ralph, 102
28 De Forest, Lee, 50, 54---55
29 Dy maxion Bathroom, 101
30 Dymaxion Corporation, 87---88, 97
31 Dymaxion Deployment Unit (DDU), 104-106
32 Dymaxion Dwelling Machine, 108-109
33 Dymaxion House, 76---80, 81, 84-85, 86, 108, 109
34 Dymaxion Map, 107, 113
35 Dymaxion roof, 104
36 Dymaxion Vehicle, 86-95, 97, 98, 101, 110
37 Earhart, Amelia, 92
38 Edison, Thomas Alva, 102, 103 Einstein, Albert, 80, 98, 100, 101, 112
39 Energy slave, 103---104
40 Expo ’76 (Montreal World’s
41 Fair), 125, 128, 129, 130
42 Fishbein, Morris, 100
43 Ford Motor Company, 117, 120 Forest Hills (New York), 110, 113,116
44 Fortune (magazine), 102---103, 104
45 Fuller, Alexandra (daughter), 52, 54, 55-56, 57, 58-62, 63, 64, 67, 137
46 Fuller, Allegra (daughter). See Snyder, Allegra Fuller
47 Fuller, Anne Hewlett (wife), 39, 40, 41, 42-44, 48, 53-54, 56, 58, 60-62, 64, 66, 67, 69, 70, 72, 81, 84, 97, 115, 116, 121, 124, 128, 140, 141, 142
48 Fuller, Arthur Buckminster, 10 Fuller, Caroline Wolcott
4950Andrews (mother), 11, 23, 24, 26, 29, 32, 38, 46, 57, 84, 128
51 Fuller, Leslie (sister). See Larned, Leslie Fuller
52 Fuller, Margaret, 10
53 Fuller, Richard (father), 11, 12, 16, 19, 22-23, 24, 28, 29
54 Fuller, R. Buckminster, birth, 9 childhood, 7---37 chronology, 143-145 as a comprehensivist, 8 dating of and marriage to
5556Anne Hewlett, 40-45, 48-49
57daughter Alexandra’s death, 62, 63, 66
58definition of history, 98-99, 103
59drinking problem, 59, 61, 64, 67, 99, 106-107
60Dymaxion House, 77-80 Dymaxion Vehicle, 86---95, 97, 99, 110
61early schooling, 12-13, 16, 20-21, 70
62family background, 10-12 geodesic dome, 8, 113---128 at Harvard College, 28---34 ideas about education, 98-99 ideas about mind over
63matter, 103 lectures, 79, 96, 102---103,
64114-115, 121, 124, 132, • 136-137, 141
65sports, 24-26, 27, 28 turning point in life, 70---73 in the U.S. Navy, 46---52, 54-56
66as a writer and poet, 8, 124-125, 134-136
67 Fuller, Rosamond ‘‘Rosy’’ (sister), 15, 133
68 Fuller, Timothy, 10
69 Fuller, Wolcott (brother), 15 Fuller House, Inc., 109
70 geodesic dome, 8, 113-128
71 George Washington (ship), 54 Gleaves, Albert, 52, 56 great circle, 113, 114
72 Great Depression, 84, 85, 87, 101
73 Great Northern (ship), 52
74 Gulf Oil, 93
75 Harvard College, 11, 24, 28, 29, 32-36, 52, 61, 120, 124
76 Hazard, Tilden, 38-39
77 Hewlett, Anglesea ‘‘Anx,’’ 39, 40, 48, 58
78 Hewlett, James Monroe, 40, 41, 64-65
79 Hewlett, Roger, 81
80 hunger, problem of, 131-132
81 Hunter College, 141
82 icosahedron, 114
83 Inca (ship), 49-50
84 Kenner, Hugh, 137-138
85 Kenner, Lisa, 138
86 King, Andrew (cousin), 16
87 King, McGregor (cousin), 16
88 Lady Anne (boat), 81, 113
89 Larned, Edward P. (brother-in- law), 38
90 Larned, Leslie Fuller (sister),
91 11, 21, 30, 38, 133
92 Lawrence (New York), 38, 44, 48, 57, 58, 61, 67
93 Life (magazine), 107
94 Lusitania (ship), 45
95 Manhattan Dome, 136
96 Marquis, Don, 99
97 Massachusetts Institute of
9899Technology (MIT), 110, 117
100 Milton (Massachusetts), 10, 11,
101 16, 19, 32, 38
102 Milton Academy, 24-28, 29, 88
103 Montreal (Quebec), 125, 128, 129, 130
104 Morley, Christopher, 99, 104
105 New York City, 31, 34, 38, 43, 61, 81, 84, 100, 102, 106, 110
106 Nine Chains to the Moon (book), 99-100
107 North Carolina State
108109University at Raleigh, 120, 125
110 Obnoxico, 111
111 octet truss, 120
112 Pacific Palisade (California), 140
113 Paris Peace Conference, 54 patent, 64, 80
114 Pearson, Philip, 86---87, 88, 97
115 Philadelphia, 135, 140-141
116 Phelps Dodge Corporation, 101-102, 124
117 Phillips, Kenneth, 39, 40, 41
118 Pierce, Lincoln ‘‘Line,’’ 27, 46, 47, 48
119 play dome, 121 pollution, 130
120 Polly (boat), 18
121 Porcellian Club, 29, 35 poverty, problem of, 19-20, 37 Princeton University, 85, 100
122 radio, ship-to-plane, 54---55 radome, 121
123 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 92
124 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 87, 92
125 ‘‘Rowing Needle,’’ 133
126 Sadao, Shoji, 125
127 Shapley, Harlow, 112
128 Shelter (magazine), 85---86
129 Skybreak bubble (Expo ’67 dome), 125, 128, 129, 130-131
130 Snyder, Allegra Fuller (daughter), 69, 71, 72, 81, 97-99, 103, 106, 110, 113, 116, 117, 133, 140
131 Snyder, Jaime, 133, 140, 141
132 Snyder, Robert, 116, 133
133 Southern Illinois University (SIU), 121
134 Spaceship Earth, 8, 129---131, 138-140
135 Stockade Building System, 65-68, 101, 110, 114 synergetic geometry, 134 Synergetics (book), 26, 134---136
136 tetrahedra, 134
137 Three Hours for Lunch Club, 99
138 Triton City, 136
139 T Square (magazine), 85
140 unemployment, problem of, 140
141 United States, 105-106
142 Airforce, 121
143 Army, 105
144 Army Air Force, 108
145 Navy, 46-52, 54-56, 105
146147pavilion at Expo ’67, 125, 128
148 United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, 51
149 University of California, 140
150 Washington, D.C., 55, 106, 132, 134
151 Wego (ship), 46, 48, 106
152 Wichita (Kansas), 108, 110
153 Willetts, Daniel, 43-44
154 Williams, Al, 93
155 Wilson, Woodrow, 45, 54, 55
156 World Game, 131---132
157 World War I, 44-46, 49, 52, 54, 55, 106
158 World War II, 105-108
159 Yale University Architectural School, 85