The Dymaxion car, c. 1933, artist Diego Rivera shown entering the car, carrying coat. The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller during the Great Depression and featured prominently at Chicago's 1933/1934 World's Fair. [1]

Dymaxion is a term coined by architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller and associated with much of his work, prominently his Dymaxion house and Dymaxion car. A portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension, [1] Dymaxion sums up the goal of his study, "maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input". [2]

The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of an icosahedron. The resulting map is heavily interrupted in order to reduce shape and size distortion compared to other world maps, but the interruptions are chosen to lie in the ocean.

Feb 9, 2019 · The Dymaxion House was a futuristic dwelling invented by the architect and practical philosopher R. Buckminister Fuller - who would have turned 124 today. The word...

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Dymaxion Car. The Dymaxion car was designed by Buckminster Fuller in the early 1930s. The car featured highly innovative, and ultimately influential, features compared with the common car of the day including: a three wheel design with rear wheel steering and front wheel drive, a longer body (20 feet), and a highly aerodynamic design.

Dymaxion House. Conceived and designed in the late 1920’s but not actually built until 1945, the Dymaxion House was Fuller’s solution to the need for a mass-produced, affordable, easily transportable and environmentally efficient house.

Oct 31, 2019 · But the polymathic designer and inventor’s little-known 1933 Dymaxion car, a zeppelin-shaped vehicle prototype designed to run 30 miles per gallon on alcohol fuel, was just as revolutionary.

The Dymaxion House was a structure built around a central post that was embedded into the ground like a large stake. The roof and the floor were suspended off the central mast by several steel cables, and were tethered to the ground by cables.

Mar 26, 2024 · The Dymaxion (a blend of DYnamic MAXimum TensION) was the most famous automotive project of Buckminster Fuller, an American architect, designer, inventor, and futurist. With three prototypes built during the Great Depression by Fuller and architect Starling Burgess, the aerodynamic three-wheeled vehicle featured a 20-foot-long body with rear ...