Patents
3‘‘I said, ‘How do we find out how to use our minds and experience to the highest advantage of others in the shortest possible time?’ That was the challenge. Out of this, in due course, came a great many designs, because I said to myself, ‘I must commit myself to reforming the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment he will behave favorably.’ ’’
45~Quoted from Buckminster Fuller An Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario, by Robert Snyder, page 39 [Sny80]
6 The following patents were the results of this commitment of Bucky’s:
| 1. | Stockade: Building Structure (1927) | US Patent 1,633,702 |
| 2. | Stockade: Pneumatic Forming Process (1927) US Patent 1,634,900 | |
| 3. | 4D House (1928) Application abandoned by Buckminster Fuller, leaving prior art evidence in patent office files. | |
| 4. | Dymaxion Car (1937) | US Patent 2,101,057 |
| 5. | Dymaxion Bathroom (1940) | US Patent 2,220,482 |
| 6. | Dymaxion Deployment Unit (sheet) (1944) | US Patent 2,343,764 |
| 7. | Dymaxion Deployment Unit (frame) (1944) | US Patent 2,351,419 |
| 8. | Dymaxion Map (1946) | US Patent 2,393,676 |
| 9. | Dymaxion House (Wichita) (1946) | |
| 10. | Geodesic Dome (1954) | US Patent 2,682,235 |
| 11. | Paperboard Dome (1959) | US Patent 2,881,717 |
| 12. | Plydome (1959) | US Patent 2,905,113 |
| 13. | Catenary (Geodesic Tent) (1959) | US Patent 2,914,074 |
| 14. | Octet Truss (1961) | US Patent 2,986,241 |
| 15. | Tensegrity (1962) | US Patent 3,063,521 |
| 16. | Submarisle (Undersea Island) (1963) | US Patent 3,080,583 |
| 17. | Aspension (Suspension Building) (1964) | US Patent 3,139,957 |
| 18. | Monohex (Geodesic Structures) (1965) | US Patent 3,197,927 |
| 19. | Laminar Dome (1965) | US Patent 3,203,144 |
| 20. | Octa Spinner (1965) Application abandoned by Buckminster Fuller, leaving prior art evidence in patent office files. | |
| 21. | StarTensegrity (OctahedralTruss) (1967) | US Patent 3,354,591 |
| 22. | Rowing Needles (Watercraft) (1970) | US Patent 3,524,422 |
| 23. | Geodesic Hexa-pent (1974) | US Patent 3,810,336 |
| 24. | Floatable Breakwater (1975) | US Patent 3,863,455 |
| 25. | Non-symmetrical Tensegrity (1975) | US Patent 3,866,366 |
| 26. | Floating Breakwater (1979) | US Patent 4,136,994 |
| 27. | Tensegrity Truss (1980) | US Patent 4,207,715 |
| 28. | Hanging Storage Self Unit (1983) | US Patent 4,377,114 |