Buckminster Fuller facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Buckminster Fuller
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Buckminster Fuller, 1972-3
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| Born | July 12, 1895 Milton, Massachusetts, United States
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| Died | July 1, 1983 (aged 87) Los Angeles, United States
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Anne Hewlett
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| Children | 2: Allegra Fuller Snyder and Alexandra, who died in childhood |
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor and futurist.
Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", and "Synergetics".
He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs. The best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.
Some of his books
- Nine chains to the Moon (1938)
- Untitled epic poem on the history of industrialization (1962)
- Ideas and integrities, a spontaneous autobiographical disclosure (1963) ISBN: 0-13-449140-8
- No more secondhand god and other writings (1963)
- What I have learned: a collection of 20 autobiographical essays, Chapter "How little I know", (1968)
- Operating manual for Spaceship Earth (1969) ISBN: 0-8093-2461-X
- Utopia or oblivion (1969) ISBN: 0-553-02883-9
- Approaching the benign environment (1970) ISBN: 0-8173-6641-5 (with Eric A. Walker and James R. Killian, Jr.)
- Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth (1972) compiled and photographed by Cam Smith, ISBN: 0-385-02979-9
- The Dymaxion world of Buckminster Fuller (1960, 1973), coauthor Robert Marks, ISBN: 0-385-01804-5
- Earth, Inc (1973) ISBN: 0-385-01825-8
- Synergetics: explorations in the geometry of thinking (1975) in collaboration with E.J. Applewhite with a preface and contribution by Arthur L. Loeb, ISBN: 0-02-541870-X
- Tetrascroll: Goldilocks and the three bears,: a cosmic fairy tale (1975)
- And it came to pass — not to stay (1976) ISBN: 0-02-541810-6
- R. Buckminster Fuller on education (1979) ISBN: 0-87023-276-2
- Synergetics 2: Further explorations in the geometry of thinking (1979) in collaboration with E.J. Applewhite
- Critical path (1981) ISBN: 0-312-17488-8
- Inventions: the patented works of R. Buckminster Fuller (1983) ISBN: 0-312-43477-4
- Humans in Universe (1983), coauthor Anwar Dil, ISBN: 0-89925-001-7
- Cosmography: a posthumous scenario for the future of humanity (1992), coauthor Kiyoshi Kuromiya, ISBN: 0-02-541850-5
Images for kids
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Fuller c. 1910
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A 1933 Dymaxion prototype.
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Fuller's home in Carbondale.
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Gravestone (see Trim tab).
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A geodesic sphere
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The Dymaxion car, c.1933, artist Diego Rivera shown entering the car, carrying coat.
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A Dymaxion house at The Henry Ford.
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Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C60. The names are homages to Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic domes they resemble.
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