Index
2A-bomb, 104--105,160
3 Architects, 51, 62--63, 64, 71, 126, 128, 130, 141--143, 165,168
4 Bauhaus, 62—63
5 Bear Island, 8--12, 67--68,114, 137, 140,182
6 Becquerel, Henri, 3
7 Beech Aircraft company, 102--105
8 Butler Manufacturing Company, 93--100
9 Coolidge, Calvin, 44
10 Continuous Man, 161
11 Depression, the Great, 70--76, 82
12 DEW, 131--132
13 Dirigible, 52--54, 80
14 Dirigible house, 53--59
15 Dymaxion, 66; Bathroom, 85--87; Car, 76--83; Map, 90-
161791; House, 91--92; Deployment Unit, 92--100
18 Einstein, Albert, 42, 59--60, 114--115
19 Electron microscope, 162--163
20 Energy, 45, 55--56, 72, 107, 114, 156; as quanta, 42, 117--119; slaves, 88--89
21 Expo 67,164-165
22 Fuller, Alexandra (daughter), 24, 37--38
23 Fuller, Allegra (daughter), 45--47, 67--68, 83, 114, 137, 140
24 Fuller, Anne Hewlett (wife), 20,37-38,45-48,63-64,72, 83, 100, 114, 136--137, 140
25 Fuller, Arthur Buckminster (grandfather), 4
26 Fuller, Caroline (mother), 13--14
27 Fuller, Margaret (great-aunt), 4--5
28 Fuller, R. Buckminster: Annapolis, 22--23; ancestors, 4—5; Armour Company, 19, 38; Bear Island, 8--12, 67--68; Black Mountain College, 127; Board of Economic Warfare, 100; Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, 151--154; Chicago, 40--41, 47—49; comprehensive anticipatory design science, 139--143; dirigible house, 53--59; Dymaxion Bathroom, 85--87; Dymaxion Car, 76--83; Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 93--100; Dymaxion House, 66, 91—92, 102--104; Dymaxion Map, 90--91; editor of Shelter, 73--75; Education Automation, 154—156; eyesight problems, 5--6, 145; Expo 67, 164—165; first inventions, 10--12; floating pyramid city, 169--171; Fortune, 87--90; 4-D house, 59--65, 102; Fuller Research Foundation, 120; geodesic dome, 120—136; geodesic dome patent, 128, 135; Harvard University, 14--19, 151--154; hearing problems, 145; interest in architecture, 50--52; jet engine, 26--28; Kabul Dome, 1--2, 134; Kaiser Dome, 134—135; Kelley-Springfield Company, 38; life or death decision, 45--47; meat-lugger, 19; mill-hand, 18; Milton Academy, 6--7, 106; Navy life, 20--28, 106; New York City, 68, 71, 74--76; New York World’s Fair, 163--164; Nine Chains to the Moon, 84—85; No More Secondhand God, 152—154; octet truss, 125--126, 129--130; Phelps Dodge Company, 83, 85—87; seaplane rescue device, 21--22; Southern Illinois University, 140--141, 154--156, 166; Stockade Company, 39--41; tensegrity, 113--125; Triennale Prize, 133—134; University of Bristol, 158--160; vector geometry, 106--119; Wichita House, 103--105, 120; World Science Decade, 156--158
29 Fuller, Timothy (ancestor), 4 Fuller, Thomas (ancestor), 4
30 Geodesic, 118,120
31 Geodesic dome, 120—136, 138,
- 145.
- 147,164-165
32 Geometry of nature, 23, 24, 106,163
33 Hewlett, James Monroe, 20,
38; concrete block, 38--41
34 Hitler, Adolf, 44, 96--97, 101, 104
35 Housing, 39--40, 48, 49, 51--54, 57--62, 73, 75--76, 93--96, 98--99, 101--104,
- 146.
- 147, 166--167, 169--181
36 Influenza epidemic of 1918, 36--37
37 Japan, 96, 99--100, 104r-105, 168--180
38 Kabul, 1-2,134
39 Kaiser, Henry J., 134—135
40 Lindbergh, Charles, 41—42
41 Livingry, 143
42 Morley, Christopher, 71, 91--93
43 Mussolini, Benito, 43
44 Nine Chains to the Moon, 84--85
45 No More Secondhand God, 152--154
46 Radio, 24—25, 56
47 Radome, 132
48 Roentgen, Wilhelm, 3
49 Rotunda, Ford, 129--130
50 Shoriki, Masutaro, 168--169
51 Southern Illinois University,
52 139--141,154-155
53 Soviet Union, 43, 97, 99, 135,
- 147.
- 150
54 Spheres, closest packing, 107--110,112
55 Stock market, 69--70, 82
56 Structural Study Associates, 73--74
57 Synergy,55
58 Technocrats, 72
59 Tensegrity, 113--124,125
60 Tetrahedron, 113, 115--119, 121--126,170,183
61 Vectors, 111--112,115,117
62 Weaponry, 143
63 Wilson, Woodrow, 24
64 World War 1,19-20
65 World War II, 96--105,131
66 Octet truss, 129--130
67 Zeppelin, Graf, 52, 80
69 DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD
70 R BUCKMINSTER FULLER & SHOJl SADAO. CARTOGRAPHERS
71 EDGES OF ICOSA TRIANGLES EQUAL TO 63' 26
72 .3.806 NAUTICAL MILES
73 8% JET AIRCRAFT HOURS
747514 CONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT HOURS 7 SHIP DAYS
76 Thu entire inap and its component part* and method of projection are fully protected hy International Copyright Convention and patentv and muvt not lie reproduced without permission of l< Rucliminster Fuller
77 This edition of Fuller Projection licensed by him under hiv V S Patent 2.393.67ft. Canadian Patent 44H.O(J4 and his copyrights of 1041. 1944. 1953 This edition copyrighted hy him 1954.