| Date: | April 19, 2006 12:47 pm |
| Subject: | Miscellaneous | | Word Count: | 115 | | Page Count: | 1 |
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller was an enginer, mathemitican, and an architect. Twice
expelled from Harvard University, buisiness disasters and the death of his four
year old daughter brought him close to suicide. He decided to devote his life to
proving that technology could save the world from itsself, providing it is
properly used. He examined a vertorial system of geometry, Energetic-Synergetic
geometry, based on the tetrahedron which provides maximum strength with inimum
structure. This led to his patent of a geodesic dome in 1947, a building the
strength of which need only increase as the log of its size. Fuller was a
research professor at Carbondale, Southern Illinios University, from 1959 to
1968. In 1968 he became a university professor and retired in 1975.
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