Index
3 Abundance: See Scarcity; Sufficiency
4 Access to principles, 112
5 Acoustic ceiling tile, 85
6 Acoustics, 339
7 Adventure Story of Thought, An (Fuller), 191
8 Afghan geodesic dome, 306-309
9 After life analogy, 368-372
10 Air conditioning, 208-209
11 Aircraft: see Aviation
12 Air currents, 246-248
13 Air-Ocean World Town Plan, 123, 124
14 Alcohol consumption, 77-78, 81-82, 87,
15 212
16 Aluminum, 336-341
17 Aluminum Corporation of America, 122
18 America’s Cup parking, 162, 166
19 American Institute of Architects (AIA), 130
20 American Space Photography, xiv
21 American Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
22 Company, 135-137, 199
23 Antarctica, 222
24 Anti-business perspective, 92; see also
25 Corporations
26 Applewhite, Ed, 396-400
27 Apprenticeship (Sherbrooke textile mill), 21-
- 22.
- 25
28 Architecture, 44
29 housing, 129-130
30 tensegrity concept, 102-103
31 See also Housing
32 Armour and Company, 23, 43-44, 72
3334Artifact development strategy, 119 idea and, 258-259 metaphysics and, 291 See also Invention
35 Artillery, 65-66
36 Astor, Vincent, 76-77, 131 flying boat, 77
37 Astrodome, 335-336
38 Athletics, 15-16, 17, 19, 77
39 Atomized water, 200
40 Authority, 14 attitude toward, 14-15 business organization, 159 child rearing, 356-357 education, 27, 29 naval hierarchy, 53, 56-57 scarcity and, 354-355 See also Power structure
41 Auto Show, New York, 156. 182
42 Automobile, 351-352; see also Dymaxion Vehicle
43 Automobile industry, 156-157, 180-189
44 Autonomous black box, 409
45 Autonomous living, 145
46 Aviation
47 air currents, 247-248
48 Burgess-Dunn plane. 162
4950Dymaxion Vehicle and, 154 early, 124
51 individual experience and, 352-353
52 Aviation (coin.)
53 mapping and, 217
5455projections for, 124 streamlining. 147 trade and, 255-256 transportation and, 241-242 World War I, 50-51 World War II, 229, 271-272
56 Balanchine. George, 286 Bali, 78-79
57 Bank moratorium, 158 Bar Harbor flotilla, 47 Bathroom design, 94, 135-137, 194-200, 284
58 Bear Island, 1
59 Beech aircraft, 272-273
60 Behavior, human. 119
61 Bellinger, Pat, 51, 52, 145, 146
62 Bennington College, 331 Bermuda, 75-76 Bernoulli principle, 209 Big Map, 414; see also Dymaxion Map;
63 Mapping
64 Black box, 409
65 Black Mountain College, 309-316, 414 Board of Economic Warfare, 230 Boat construction, 10-11 Boom mast winch, 51, 145 Boston subway system, 17
66 Brain/mind relationship: see Mind/brain relationship
67 Braking system, 195
68 Breakfast food analogy, 105
69 Brezhnev, Leonid, 386
70 Bridgeport, Connecticut, 157-158 British Empire, 254 British navy, 56 Brown, Harvey, 272 Bryn Mawr College, 394 Buckminster, Joseph, 1
71 Burgess, Starling, 162-163, 170, 171 313 Butler Manufacturing Company, 205-208, 211
72 Cage, John, 309, 311 Cambridge, Massachusetts, 17 Campus unrest, 392-393
73 Canon, 65-66
74 Capone, Al, 82
75 Captain of the ship, 56
76 Carbondale, Illinois, 346-347
77 Cartography: see Dymaxion Map; Mapping Categorization, 31
78 Celotex Corporation, 84
79 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 397 Ceramic bathroom fixtures, 136-137 Changing society, 356-358
80 Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, 203, 347
81 Chicago Institute of Design, 314, 336, 393 Chicago World’s Fair (1933-1934), 173- 174, 175, 319
82 Child rearing, 356-358
83 Chronofile, 70, 398
84 Chrysler, Walter, 182-186
85 Chrysler Airflow, 182
86 Churchill, Winston, 229, 238, 239 Cities
87 Fuller and, 23
88 Nature and, 41
89 See also New York City Climate
90 Earth and, 247
91 migration patterns and, 248-249
92 Cloud Nine structure, 408-409 Communication
93 experience and, 302-303
9495Fuller and, 96 global, 127 naval training, 56-57 radio, 69 technology, 242 telepathic, 72-74, 114, 298 World War II, 229
96 Communism, 190
97 Comprehensive anticipatory design science, 379
98 Comprehensive anticipatory design scientist, xii
99 Comprehensive vs. specialized train- ing/education, 57-58
100 Comprehensivist, xii
101 Comprehensive global perspective, 216-217 Concave/convex, 39-40
102 Connecticut Canada Textile Company, 21
103 Conscious thought: see Thought Conservation: see Ecology; Environment Construction techniques
104105Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 207 environment and, 125 geodesic dome, 321 ten-deck prefabrication, 126-127
106 Control of the seas, 53-56
107 Controlling personality, 93 Copper, 197, 200-202 as bellwether metal, 200-201 more with less trend, 202 recycling pattern, 201-202
108 Cornell University, 260-263
109 Corporations
110 abundance, 376
111 distrust of, 178
112 goedesic dome, 334, 336
113114individual and, 119, 120 motives of, 184-185
115settlement patterns and, 257 technology and, 136-137
116 Cosmic perspective, 226-227
117 Cousins, Norman, vii-ix, 343-344
118 Craftspeople, 371-372
119 Critical Path (Fuller), 403-404, 414
120 Cross Island, 49
121 Cube, 15
122 Cunningham, Merce, 309, 310, 311
123 Curtiss-Wright, 181
124 Dalton School, 189
125 Darwin, Charles, 116-117, 372
126 Davenport, Ralph, 203-204
127 De Forest, Lee, 52
128 De Kooning, Elaine, 309
129 De Kooning, Willem, 309
130 Depression: see Great Depression
131 Design science, 144-145
132 Dial, The, 2
133 Dil, Anwar, 416
134 Dirigible, 127
135 Discipline- in communicating, 68-69
136 Dissemination of the news analogy, 357- 359
137 Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, 327
138 Divide and conquer, 57
139 Divine right of kings, 371
140 Division
141 concerning education, 31 within human society, 31 Dreiser, Theodore, 309 Drop City, 359 Dunham, Katherine, 410 Dunn, James, 162 Dwelling machine, 121 Dymaxion, 132
142 word origin, 131-132
143 Dymaxion Bathroom, 137, 195-200, 284 Dymaxion Car: see Dymaxion Vehicle Dymaxion Corporation, 157
144 Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 205-211 air cooling tendency, 208-209 construction, 207-208 inexpensive dwelling, 209-210 specifications, 207, 209 in World War II, 210-211
145 Dymaxion Equator, 227-228 Dymaxion House, 13, 95, 119, 131-132, 257, 271
146 assembly, 276-277
147148Chicago World’s Fair, 173 construction techniques, 276-279, 321 costs of, 281-282
149Dymaxion Vehicle and, 156 materials for, 275-278 production problems, 282-285 public response to, 282 stock financing, 274-275, 282-283 transportation and, 145, 146 ventilator, 279-280
150 Wichita development, 273-275 Dymaxion Living Machines Company, 274 Dymaxion Map, 9, 204, 213-240, 241-269.
151 260, 378, 385-386
152 Big Map, 414 comprehensiveness of, 233 cosmic perspective, 226-227 distortion and, 223, 225 development and calculation of, 223-225 ecology and, 217-218 environment and, 213-214 and geodesic dome, 226 Geoscope and, 259-269 global perspective, 245-246 global society and, 243
153 Dy maxion Map (cont.) icosahedron, 225 impact of, 257 migration patterns and, 248-251 One-Ocean World version, 243-244 patenting process, 236-237 perspectives of, 243-244 planning applications of, 241 psychological impact of, 244-246 publication of, 235-237 public reception of, 237
154155Spaceship Earth arrangement, 256 Spaceship Earth perspective, 256 transportation and, 246-248 transformation, 223 unique arrangements, 234, 236-237, 241--- 244
156 and weather patterns, 246-247
157 See also Mapping
158 Dymaxion Vehicle, 43, 96, 143-167, 169--- 190
159160accident, 175 appeal of, 147 assembly, 161 aviation, 154 closing the plant, 161, 178, 179 comparison to Airflow, 182-184 effectiveness of individual over bureau-cracy, 184
161final model (Kaiser), 186-189 front-wheel drive, 164 influence of, 180-183 Nature and, 164, 187 origins of, 143-144, 145-146 performance of, 169 power relations and, 144 production of, 158-161, 177-179 public response to, 165-167, 169---170, 172-173
162reason for not being mass produced, 184--- 185
163record breaking, 170 safety and, 175-177 specifications, 169 steering, 164-165, 170, 171 streamlining, 146-148, 171 technology, 152-153, 180
164 Dymaxion Vehicle (cont.) tripod design, 151-152 turbine engine, 171-172 and used cars, 184-185
165 Eagle Boat, 76
166 Eagle Island, 9
167 Earhart, Amelia, 172-173
168 Earning a living, 388-389
169 Earth, xiv
170 Air-Ocean World Town Plan, 122-123
171172Dymaxion Map, 241, 252 mapping, 214-216 motion, 246-247
173perspective on, 231-232, 243-244 triangle, 35-41
174 East St. Louis, Missouri, 410-413
175 Ecology
176177bathroom design, 135, 136 communes, 359
178Dymaxion Map, 217-218 house construction, 128-129 natural resources, 200-201 pollution and, 11
179 Shelter magazine, 139
180 See also Environment
181 Education, 26
182 error and, 38-39
183184experiential geometry, 33-34 experimentation and, 35-41 Fuller’s attitude toward, 26-34, 239-240 individual and, 29-34
185mind/brain relationship, 34-35 power structures and, 57-58 restrictions, 26-27, 29 society and, 32-33
186 Universe and, 38
187 Education Automation (Fuller), 347
188 ‘‘E = MC2 = Mrs. Murphy’s Horsepower,’’ 193
189 Egypt (ancient), 368-370
190 Einstein, Albert, 100, 110, 192-194
191 Element movement, 108-110
192 Elemental knot, 101, 106-107, 110
193 Emergence by emergency, 268, 376 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2 Empire State Building, 405
194 Energy
195 global energy grid, 383-386
196 pattern integrity concept, 100
197 relativity theory, 193
198 wave patterns, 115
199 World Game, 378-381
200 Energy efficiency analogy, 379-380
201 Energy Slaves, 380-381
202 Energy transmission, 383-386 Energetic/Synergetic Geometry, 25 Environment
203 behavior and, 119
204205construction techniques and, 125 individual and, 127, 354-356 mapping and, 213-214 society and, 32-33 See also Ecology
206 EPCOT Center, 260
207 Ephemeralization, 378
208 Equal Rights Amendment, 3
209 Error, 38-39
210 Essay on the Principle of Population, An, 372
211 Euclidian geometry, 14-15
212 Experimentation, 35-41
213 Expo ’67 (Montreal): See Montreal World’s Fair (1967)
214 Feminism, 2-3; see also Women Fiberglas, 197, 207, 277, 321 Fifty-six-year experiment, xii Fishbein, Morris, 192
215 Fitzgibbon, James, 412
216 Flight
217 Nature and, 148-150
218 turbine engine, 150-151
219 See also Aviation
220 ‘‘Floating City,’’ 405
221 Flying fish, 147
222 Fog gun, 199-200
223 Football, 15-16
224 Forbes-Sempill, William Francis, 174, 175--- 176
225 Ford, Henry, 131, 177, 319, 369
226 Ford, Henry, II, 319
227 Ford Motor Company, 319-323
228 Ford Rotunda Building, 319-320
229 Fortune magazine, 203-204, 228, 373-374 4D Company, 129 4D House, 121-122, 126-132 4D Time Lock (Fuller), 130 ‘‘Foumess,’’ 40 Foumess of Universe, 40, 298-300 Fractions, 26 Free speech movement, 358 Fuller, Alexandra (his daughter) birth of, 71 death of, 77-78, 79, 97 health of, 71-72, 74, 75, 76 telepathic communication, 72, 73, 74 Fuller Snyder, Allegra (his daughter): See ■ Snyder, Allegra Fuller
230 Fuller, Anne (his wife, nee Anne Hewlett), 50, 189, 273-274 contributions of, 93-94, 129, 316-317 courtship of, 44---46 death of, 417 health of, 394-395, 404, 414, 416-417 marital relationship, 67-68, 82, 91, 285 marriage of, 50
231 Fuller, Arthur Buckminster (his grandfather), 2 Fuller, Caroline (his mother), 3, 4, 13, 14, 16, 43, 178
232 Fuller, Richard Buckminster (his father), 1, 3-5, 11-13
233 Fuller, Richard Buckminster, Jr. (Bucky) alcohol and, 75-76, 81-82, 87, 211 apprenticeship of, 21-22 birth of, 1, 4-5 career of, xii childhood of, 5-11 chronology of life of, 419-447 death of, xi, 417 diet, 367-368 education of, 13-19, 22 experiential education of, 25-41 eyesight of, 5-6, 7-8 father’s influence on, 11-13 finances of, 43, 50, 71, 74. 76, 85, 87, 90-91, 94-95, 129, 134-135, 139- 140, 178, 194-195, 203. 314, 317. 331 health of, 367-368. 395-396. 397. 414 income, 317 lecture style, 287-288
234 Fuller, Richard Buckminster, Jr. (cont.) marital relationship, 67-68, 82, 91, 285 marriage of, 50 military experience, 46-52 mysticism, 88 naval career, 67-71 naval training, 57-62 poet, 202-203 sense of smell, 5 suicidal thoughts, 87-88 temper, 82 thinker, 96
235236U.S. Naval Academy and, 52-53, 64-66 vision of, xii-xiii
237 youth of, 43-66
238 Fuller, Leslie (his sister), 4, 5, 7, 20, 43
239 Fuller, Margaret (his great-aunt), 2-3
240 Fuller, Rosamond (his sister), 5
241 Fuller, Thomas, 1-2
242 Fuller, Timothy, 2
243 Fuller, Timothy, Jr., 2
244 Fuller, Wolcott (his brother), 5, 47, 122
245 Fuller Houses, Inc., 274
246 Fuller Research Institute, 317
247 Fullerese, xiii
248 Fyodorov, Eugene, vii-viii
249 Gandhi, Indira, 344-346
250 Gandhi, Mohandas, 93
251 Gaty, Jack, 273, 275, 284
252 General Electric Company, 121
253 Generation gap, 355
254 Geodesic dome, 9, 43, 84, 92, 101, 130, 206, 260, 305-332
255 acoustics of, 339
256 Afghanistan, 306-309
257 air lifted, 326
258 Black Mountain College, 309-316
259 commercial viability, 318
260 construction techniques, 321
261 development of, 305-306
262263development of geometry for, 295-296 financing of, 317
264 Ford Motor Company, 319-323
265 invention of, 313-314
266 Kaiser Hawaiian, 336-340
267 Montreal, 317-318, 360-365
268 paperboard, 323
269 Geodesic dome (cont.) patent for, 318-319 pneumatic, 324 proliferation of, 359 radome, 327-331 reaction to, 334
270271Spruce Goose dome, 340 stadiums, 334-336 tension/compression balance, 312-313 Union Tank Car, 339, 340-341 U.S. government, 324-326 U.S. Pavilion (Moscow), 341-344
272 Geodesics, 305
273 Geometry, 25-26
274275Dymaxion Map, 224 education and, 30-31 experiential geometry, 33-34 mapping and, 219 synergetic geometry, 396 See also Mathematics
276 Geoscope, 259-269, 360, 378 alignment, 261-262 astronomical observations, 262-263 Blackwell’s Island (Roosevelt Island), 267 Cornell University, 260-263 scale, 265-266
277278Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 263-264
279turn inward to expand outward, 264 University of Minnesota, 264-265 United Nations, 267-268 and World Game, 267
280 Germany, 63-64, 202, 228-231
281 Gleaves, Albert, 68, 70, 71, 90
282 Glider, 229-230
283 Global energy grid, 383-386
284 Global society, 242-243; see also World Game
285 Good ideas, 258
286 God
287288individual and, 116 moon landing, 392 mysticism and, 89-90 Nature and, 111 Universe and, 91 See also Religion
289 Graf Zeppelin, 174-175 ‘‘Grandfather of the Universe,’’ 358
290 Great Britain, 53-54, 254
291 Great circles, 219-222
292 Great Depression, 133-134, 138, 155, 156--- 158, 178, 189, 210
293 Greater Intellect, 89-91; see also God
294 Guinea Pig B, xii
295 Crunch of Giants (Fuller), 414
296 Gurdjieff, 141
297 Harvard University, 17-19, 22, 347
298 Hasty Pudding Club, 2
299 Haverford College, 394
300 Hawaiian Symphony Orchestra, 338
301 Hawaiian Village Hotel Dome, 337-340
302 Hayden Stone (investment group), 181
303 Hewlett, Anglesea (Anx, his sister-in-law), 44, 45
304 Hewlett, Anne: see Fuller, Anne
305 Hewlett, James Monroe (his father-in-law), 44, 74, 79-80, 81, 84, 129, 205
306 Hofheinz, Judge Roy, 335, 336
307 Honeymoon, 68
308 ‘‘House on a Pole,’’ 126-127
309 Housework, 13
310 Housing, 271-288
311 airborne, 408-409
312 conservation, 129
313314Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 205-211 floating housing, 405-407 4D House, 121-122, 125-132 geodesic dome, 306
315 Old Man River City, 410-413
316317Stockade Building System, 79-85 transportation and, 256-257 World Game, 388
318 Howe, George, 138
319 How Little I Know (Fuller), 417-418
320 Hughes, Howard, 340
321 Human soul, 105-106
322 IBM, 317
323 ‘‘Ice cream soda clause,’’ 157
324 Icosahedron, 223-224, 225
325 Ideas and Integrities (Fuller), 347
326 Imagination, 300-301
327 Importance of the younger generations, 350- 352
328 Independent thinking, 15
329 India, 344-346 Individual centrality of, xi design science and, 144 education and, 29-34 environment and, 127, 354-356 God and, 116 power of, 119-120 society and, 31-32 technology and, 349-356 thought and, 290
330 Universe and, 115-116, 117 Industrial revolution, 249, 380 Information Age, 92, 347 Intuition (boat), 391 Intuition (book), 398 Invention
331 environment/behavior nexus, 119
332 Nature and, 96-97
333 See also Artifact
334 ‘‘Inventory of World Resources, Human
335 Trends and Needs,’’ 373 Invisible technology, 64-66
336 Japan, 202 Jellyfish, 9 Jet engine: see Turbine engine Jet stilts, 150-152
337 Joe and the red telephone analogy, 112-114 Johnson, Phillip, 139
338 J. P. Morgan and Company, 75
339 Kaiser, Henry J., 185-189, 336
340 Kaiser Aluminum Company, 336-339. 340 Kelly-Springfield Truck Company, 75 Khan, Sardar Mohammad Duad, 308 Khrushchev, Nikita, 341 King, Alexander, 303-304 King, Larry, 415 Kitchen debate, 341 Kitty Foyle (Morley), 207 Knot: see Elemental knot Knot/Rope analogy, 100 Kohler Company, 136 Kuromiya, Kiyoshi, 403, 404
341 Ladle, The, 198
342 La Jolla. California, 399
343 Lawrence, Long Island, New York, 332 Learning experiences---mistakes, 95 Lehigh Building, 134 Levenson brothers, 138 Life, 98
344 Life forms, extraterrestrial, 111
345 Life magazine, 228-230, 235-237 Lindbergh, Charles, 124, 352, 357 Line of supply warfare, 55
346 Lippincott, J. B. (publisher), 191-194 Livingry, 269 Locomobile, 157 Lowell, Lawrence, 130 Luce, Henry, 237-238, 250, 374
347 Machiasport, 49
348 Macmillan Publishing Co., 399-402 ‘‘Make money or make sense,’’ 375 Malthus, Thomas, 372-373 Mapping
349 polyconic projection, 223
350 World War II, 231-232
351352See also Dymaxion Map; Mercator projection
353 Maps
354355distortion, 215-216, 218, 223 for naval navigation, 214
356 perception of the ‘‘enemy,’’ 231-234 problems in creation of global, 214 Marie, Romany, 74, 132, 133, 140, 190 Marine navigation, 214-215
357 Marketing and selling ideas and inventions, 93
358 Marshall Field department store, 131-132 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 286, 328
359 Mass production, 130
360 Mathematics, 25, 26
361362Dymaxion Map, 223 education in, 26-34 Nature and, 204, 305 thought, 297-298 Universe, 40-41 See also Geometry
363 Mercator projection, 214-216, 218, 223, 251
364 Metallurgy, 65-66, 122-123, 200-202
365 Metaphysics artifacts, 291 evolutionary theory, 116 physics and, 98-101, 347 Universe, 97-98
366 Meyerson, Martin, 393-394
367 Migration patterns (human), 248-251, 257 Miller, Marilyn, 20 Milton Academy, 13-14 Milton, Massachusetts, vi Mind/brain relationship
368 education, 34-35 pattern integrity, 114-115 telepathic communication, 73 Miniature Earth, 259 Mistake: see Error Miss Madeira's School, 274 Montreal World’s Fair (1967), 130, 260, 360-365
369 Moon landing, 393
370 Morley, Christopher, 190, 191, 205 Morris, Delyte, 393 Motion
371372Earth, 246-247 thought, 290-291 Universe, 146
373 Multinational corporations, 376 Mysticism, 88
374 Natural technology, 9 Nature
375376childhood experience, 9 cities, 41 construction techniques, 127 Dymaxion Vehicle, 165, 187 education, 33-34 flight, 148-150 foumess, 299 geometry, 25-26 God and, 111 housing, 121-122 invention, 96-97 mathematics, 204, 305 pattern integrity concept, 103 precession, 93-94 streamlining, 146-148 Transcendentalism, 3
377 Naval officers, responsibility and training, 56
378 Naval warfare, 54
379 Navigation, 214-215
380 Nehru, Jawaharlal, 345
381 New Delhi, India, 399
382 Newport News, Virginia, 50
383 New York City, 22-23, 43-44, 74, 76, 132
384 New York Studio School, 377
385 Nine Chains to the Moon (Fuller), 191-192, 194, 204, 347
386 ‘‘Ninety-day wonder,’’ 52
387 Nixon, Richard M., 341, 407
388 Noguchi, Isamu, 132, 133, 155
389 No More Secondhand God (Fuller), 347
390 Nonconformism, 1-2
391 Normal and natural analogy, 352-355
392 Norquist, E. E., 208-209
393 Oar invention, 9-10
394 Obnoxico (fictitious corporation), 374-376
395 Ocean of modem transportation, 241
396 Octet truss, 6-7
397 Old Man River City, 410-413
398 O’Malley, Walter, 334-335
399 Omni-Medium Transport, 153, 154
400 O’Neill, Eugene, 74
401 One-Town-World Map, 204
402 "One-World Island in a One-World Ocean,’’ 224
403 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
404 (Fuller), 347
405 Osbom, William, 195
406 Outlaws, 62
407 Patents, 80
408 Pattern integrity concept, 101-104, 106-107 analogy for, 112-114 illustrations of, 104-106 intelligent life in the universe, 111-112 life process, 109-110 mind/brain relationship, 114-115
409 Pearson, Philip, 156, 157
410 Peer relations, 14, 15-16, 31
411 Penn, Arthur, 309, 310
412 Penobscot Bay, 1
413 Perky, Scott, 80
414 Phelps Dodge Corporation, 137, 194-200,
415 202, 373
416 Phillips, Kenneth, 44, 45
417 Phone call, first transatlantic, 71
418 Photoelectric cell, 122
419 Physics, 98-101
420 Pierce, Lincoln, 8, 47
421 Pierce Arrow, 181
422 Piracy, 61-62
423 Plane, 14-15
424 Playdome, 332
425 ‘‘Playing the game," 15
426 Plexiglas, 278, 279, 362
427 Plumbing design, 135-137; see also
428 Bathroom design
429 Plumbing industry, 197-199
430 Poetry, 202-203, 347
431 Pole vaulter analogy, 148-150
432 Politicians, 144
433 Politics
434 Fuller and, 268
435 geography and, 252-253
436 impediment of, 386
437 Pollution, II; see also Ecology; Environment
438 Polyconic projection, 223-224
439 Port cities, 251, 254-257
440 Poverty, 16-17
441 Power structure
442 Dymaxion Vehicle, 144
443 education, 57-58
444 individual and, 119-120
445 piracy, 61-62
446 trade and, 253
447 See also Authority
448 Power of thinking, 119-120
449 Precession, 93-94, 95
450 Predictions and time, 194
451 Principles of nature, 33
452 Profit motive, 92
453 Prohibition, 82
454 Prophets, 370
455 Purchase vs. lease of equipment, 180
456 Radar, 211
457 Radicalism, 32, 38, 62
458 Radio transmission, 52, 53
459 naval communication, 69, 70-71
460 Radio transmission (cont.) public skepticism, 114 shortwaves, 73-74 World War II, 232
461 Radome, 328-331
462 Railroad, 251
463 Reality, perceptions of, 290
464 Recycling of resources, 128
465 Redemption, 370
466 Relativity theory, 110, 193
467 Religion, 89-90, 370-371; see also God
468 Resource allocation, 368-374
469 Resources inventory, global, 373-374
470 Reuther, Walter, 272
471 Reverse food analogy, 105-106
472 Ribbed ship construction, 55
473 Rice, John Andrew, 309
474 Richter, Donald, 313, 336-337
475 Rivera, Diego, 172
476 Riverdale, New York, 353
477 Rizzo, Frank, 394
478 ‘‘Roam Home to a Dome,’’ 333-334
479 Robertson, Donald, 318
480 Robin Hood, 8
481 ‘‘Robin Hood consciousness,’’ 11
482 Rock Hall, 44
483 Rolls Royce, 158
484 Roof Structures, 335-336
485 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 172
486 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 139, 157, 181
487 Roosevelt, Theodore, 47 ‘‘Ruling the waves,’’ 53 Rural environment, 354-355 Ruse of Medusa, The, 310-312
488 Russell, Bertrand, 130
489 Russia: see Soviet Union
490 Ryan, General, 183
491 Sadao, Shoji, 360
492 Sailing, 10-11
493 Sailing-ship world, 251
494 Sailing skills, 9-11
495 Sanders, Walter, 186
496 Sanitation, 94, 135-137, 195; see also
497 Bathroom design
498 Scarab Car, 156
499 Scarcity, xi, 368
500 belief system, 356-357
501 Scarcity (cont.)
502 Malthus and, 372-373
503 See also Sufficiency
504 Schlossberg, Edwin, 378
505 Science, 26
506 Secrets of the water-ocean world, 253
507 Self-interference, 100
508 Service-oriented economy, 382
509 Sex role: see Women
510 Shah, Zahir (k. of Afghanistan), 308
511 Shelter: see Housing
512 Shelter magazine, 138-139
513 Sherbrooke, Quebec, 21
514 Shipbuilding, 60
515 early, 60
516 ‘‘Ship comes in,’’ 61
517 Shoriki, Matsutaro, 405, 406
518 Short-term vs. long-term issues, 155
519 Shortwave radio transmission, 73-74; see also Radio transmission
520 Shredded wheat, 80
521 ‘‘Shrinking Earth,’’ 217
522 Siege, 55
523 Sine and cosine, 26
524 Skybreak bubble, 365
525 Slavery, 2
526 Sleep patterns, 132-133
527 Smith, Sir Kingsford, 172
528 Snelson, Kenneth, 315-316
529 Snow, C. P., ix
530 Snyder, Alexandra Fuller (his grand-daughter), 332, 353-354
531 Snyder, Allegra Fuller (his daughter), 93, 140, 143, 189, 273-274, 353 birth of, 85 career of, 286-287, 288 marriage of, 331-332
532 Snyder, Jaime Lawrence (his grandson), 332, 404, 417
533 Snyder, Robert (his son-in-law), 331-332, 404
534 Social clubs, 19
535 Socialism, 92
536 Socialization, 39
537 Society
538539education and, 31, 33 environmentalism and, 32-33 individual and, 31-32
540 ship building, 60
541 Sokolniki Park, 341
542 Southern Illinois University, 263-264, 346, 377, 378, 392-393
543 Soviet Union, vii-viii, 309, 341-344, 386 Spaceship Earth concept, 127, 256 Sparkling sphere of light, 88 Spherical geometry, 296-297, 305 Spherical trigonometry, 26 Stadiums, 334-336
544 Standard Sanitary: see American Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company
545 Stanley, Ray, 351 Stilt walker analogy, 151 Stockade Building System, 79-85, 91-92, 95
546 Stout, Bill, 156 Streamlining, 146-148 Student protests, 392-393 Submarine warfare, 63-64 Sufficiency
547548resource categories, 386-387 technology, 33, 228, 373
549 Suicide, 87-88
550 Sulfur, 11
551 Swarthmore College, 394 Sweater analogy, 107-108 Synergetic geometry, 25 Synergetic Geometry (Fuller), 25-26, 396 Synergetics (Fuller), 26, 396, 397-402, 403 Synergetics Dictionary, 399 Synergetics 2 (Fuller), 26, 402-403 Synergy concept, 103
552553tensegrity, 103-104 trade and, 60-61
554 Taub, Alexander, 189 Technology
555556communication, 242 corporation and, 135-136 Dymaxion Vehicle, 152-153, 169, 180 Geoscope, 266, 268 global society, 242-243 housing, 83, 129 impact of, 120 individual and, 349-356 manufacturing and, 135-136 mapping, 214 natural resources, 201-202
557 Technology (cont.)
558 naval, 54, 55, 64-66
559 radio, 52
560561sanitation, 199 scarcity, 373 sufficiency, 33, 228 turbine engine, 145, 171-172 warfare, 55, 58-62, 217
562 Telepathic communication, 72-74, 114, 298
563564Ten-deck prefabrication techniques, 123, 125-127
565 Tensegrity, 101-103, 316
566567Tension/compression balance, 312-313 Tetrahedron, 299-300
568 Textile weaving machinery, 21
569570‘‘Thinking Out Loud’’ sessions, 96, 289 Thought, 289-304
571 change and, 290-291
572573communication and, 302-304 elements of, 297-298 experience and, 293-294 foumess, 299
574imagination and, 300-301 insideness/outsideness, 296-297 lecture style and, 289-290
575micro-, macro- irrelevant experiences, 293-294
576and past experience, 302-303, 304 relationships, 297-298 retreat and, 294-296
577 as a sorting process, 291-293
578 sphere analogy, 292
579580spherical geometry, 296-297, 305 steps in, 291-293
581 system, 296-297
582 ‘‘Three Hours for Lunch Club,’’ 190, 191
583 Tokyo, Japan, 399
584 Trade
585 aviation and, 255-256
586 power structures and, 253-254
587 by sea, 60
588 synergy and, 60-61
589 Transcendentalism, 3
590 Transportation, 17
591 aviation and, 124-125
592 Dymaxion House and, 143, 146
593594Dymaxion Map and, 241, 247-248 global, 127
595 Transportation (cont.)
596 housing, 257
597 migration patterns and, 251
598 World War II, 231-232
599 Trench warfare, 58-59
600 Trial-and-error experimentation, 35-41
601 Triangle
602 concave/convex and, 39-40
603 spherical, 35-41
604 See also Geometry
605 Triangle in the dirt sequence, 30-41
606 Trigonometry, 27-29
607 Trim tab, xii, 417
608 Trinidad, Colorado, 359
609 Triode tube, 52
610 Tripod design (Dymaxion Vehicle), 151-152
611 Triton City, 406-407
612 Trojan War, 54, 55, 58, 59
613 Trudeau, Pierre, 386
614 Trusting own experience, 88-89
615 T Square (magazine), 137-138
616 Turbine engine
617 development of, 171-172
618 Dymaxion Vehicle, 145, 146
619 flight and, 150-151
620 propulsion, 145
621 Turner (Dymaxion Vehicle driver), 175-176
622 Twain, Mark, 46
623 U-boats, 49
624 Underhill, Gary, 230-231
625 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: see
626 Soviet Union
627 Union Tank Car dome, 340-341
628 United Nations, 265, 267-268
629 Unity is plural, 294
630 U.S. Naval Academy, 52-53, 67
631 U.S.S. Finland, 67
632 U.S.S. George Washington, 70
633 U.S.S. Inca, 50
634 U.S. Steel Corporation, 336
635 U.S.S. Wego, 47-50
636 Universe
637 definition, xv
638 education, 38
639 Einstein, 193
640 foumess of, 40, 298-300
641 God and, 91
642 Universe (cont.)
643644individual and, 115-116, 117 intelligent life in, 106-107, 110-112 mathematics and, 40-41 metaphysics, 97-98
645 motion, 146
646 mysticism, 88
647648pattern integrity concept, 102 relativity theory, 110
649 thought and, 290, 297-298
650 University of California-Berkeley, 358 University of Minnesota, 264, 265 University of Pennsylvania, 393-394 University City Science Center, 394 U Thant, 268
651 Vancouver World’s Fair (1986), 260
652 Vietnam War, 392
653 Vinci, Leonardo da, 93 Vow of silence (1927), 93 Vulnerability of vehicles, 153-154
654 Warfare
655 Dymaxion Map, 248
656657naval power, 54-56, 62, 64-66 technology, 58-62, 217
658 university resources, 394
659 World War II and, 228-231
660 Wargames, xi, 68
661 Warren, Waldo, 131
662 Washington, George, 1
663 Wasserman, William, 282, 283 Waste, 375-376
664 Water conservation, 135
665 Wave patterns, 104, 115
666 Wealth, 90
667 Weir’s Florist, 46
668 Who's Who in America, xii
669 Williams, Al, 174, 176
670 Wilson, Woodrow, 70, 71
671 Winch, 51, 145
672 Windsor Castle, England, 399
673 Wings of a Century, 177
674 Wireless communication: see Radio transmission
675 Wolf, Herman, 272, 274, 282, 285 Women, 3, 67-68, 357-359
676 Wood shavings, 83
677 World Game, 69, 377, 378-383 energy, 379-381 global cooperation, 388-389 housing, 388 initial development, 377-378 management, 391 resource categories, 386-387 resource ownership, 381-383 right to live, 388
678 World Resources Inventory, 201
679 World Series, 76
680 World War I, 46-52
681682copper use, 201 end of, 70
683naval power, 53-54, 56-57, 62-63 technology, 58-59
684 World Warn, 61, 186
685 aircraft production, 271-272
686 Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 210-211
687 housing, 271, 272
688 mapping and, 230-231, 232-233
689 strategy, 227-231
690 Yale-Harvard football game, 77
691 ‘‘You and me,’’ xi
692 ‘‘You or me,’’ xi
693 Youthful perspective, 352-359
694 Yurt (shelter), 308
695 Zoommobile, 143; see also Dymaxion
696 Vehicle