Index
1 American Institute of
2 Architects, 80
3American Scholar, The, 112-113
4 Andrews, Grandmother, 13, 16, 18, 20, 36
5 Applewhite, E. J., 134-136
6 Armour and Company, 34-35, 37-38, 42, 44, 48, 57
7 Astor, Vincent, 59-60
8 atomic power, 139
9 Bear Island (Maine), 13, 15-16, 17-19, 28, 33, 60, 81, 95, 102,113, 133
10 Beech Aircraft, 108
11 Bellinger, Pat, 50---51
12 BIG PICTURE, the, 7, 20, 36, 38, 52, 68, 72, 73, 129
13 Board of Economic Warfare, 106,107
14 Cambridge (Massachusetts), 28, 124
15 Capone, Al, 67, 70
16 Carbondale (Illinois), 121, 134,
17 135
18 Celotex Corporation, 68
19 Chicago (Illinois), 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 79, 80, 92, 93, 94
20 Chronofile, 74, 110, 113, 140
21 Cloud Nine, 136
22 Comprehensivist, 8, 72
23 Cornell University, 117
24 Dartmouth College, 117
25 Davenport, Ralph, 102
26 De Forest, Lee, 50, 54---55
27 Dy maxion Bathroom, 101
28 Dymaxion Corporation, 87---88, 97
29 Dymaxion Deployment Unit (DDU), 104-106
30 Dymaxion Dwelling Machine, 108-109
31 Dymaxion House, 76---80, 81, 84-85, 86, 108, 109
32 Dymaxion Map, 107, 113
33 Dymaxion roof, 104
34 Dymaxion Vehicle, 86-95, 97, 98, 101, 110
35 Earhart, Amelia, 92
36 Edison, Thomas Alva, 102, 103 Einstein, Albert, 80, 98, 100, 101, 112
37 Energy slave, 103---104
38 Expo ’76 (Montreal World’s
39 Fair), 125, 128, 129, 130
40 Fishbein, Morris, 100
41 Ford Motor Company, 117, 120 Forest Hills (New York), 110, 113,116
42Fortune (magazine), 102---103, 104
43 Fuller, Alexandra (daughter), 52, 54, 55-56, 57, 58-62, 63, 64, 67, 137
44 Fuller, Allegra (daughter). See Snyder, Allegra Fuller
45 Fuller, Anne Hewlett (wife), 39, 40, 41, 42-44, 48, 53-54, 56, 58, 60-62, 64, 66, 67, 69, 70, 72, 81, 84, 97, 115, 116, 121, 124, 128, 140, 141, 142
46 Fuller, Arthur Buckminster, 10 Fuller, Caroline Wolcott
4748Andrews (mother), 11, 23, 24, 26, 29, 32, 38, 46, 57, 84, 128
49 Fuller, Leslie (sister). See Larned, Leslie Fuller
50 Fuller, Margaret, 10
51 Fuller, Richard (father), 11, 12, 16, 19, 22-23, 24, 28, 29
52 Fuller, R. Buckminster, birth, 9 childhood, 7---37 chronology, 143-145 as a comprehensivist, 8 dating of and marriage to
5354Anne Hewlett, 40-45, 48-49
55daughter Alexandra’s death, 62, 63, 66
56definition of history, 98-99, 103
57drinking problem, 59, 61, 64, 67, 99, 106-107
58Dymaxion House, 77-80 Dymaxion Vehicle, 86---95, 97, 99, 110
59early schooling, 12-13, 16, 20-21, 70
60family background, 10-12 geodesic dome, 8, 113---128 at Harvard College, 28---34 ideas about education, 98-99 ideas about mind over
61matter, 103 lectures, 79, 96, 102---103,
62114-115, 121, 124, 132, • 136-137, 141
63sports, 24-26, 27, 28 turning point in life, 70---73 in the U.S. Navy, 46---52, 54-56
64as a writer and poet, 8, 124-125, 134-136
65 Fuller, Rosamond ‘‘Rosy’’ (sister), 15, 133
66 Fuller, Timothy, 10
67 Fuller, Wolcott (brother), 15 Fuller House, Inc., 109
68 geodesic dome, 8, 113-128
69George Washington (ship), 54 Gleaves, Albert, 52, 56 great circle, 113, 114
70 Great Depression, 84, 85, 87, 101
71Great Northern (ship), 52
72 Gulf Oil, 93
73 Harvard College, 11, 24, 28, 29, 32-36, 52, 61, 120, 124
74 Hazard, Tilden, 38-39
75 Hewlett, Anglesea ‘‘Anx,’’ 39, 40, 48, 58
76 Hewlett, James Monroe, 40, 41, 64-65
77 Hewlett, Roger, 81
78 hunger, problem of, 131-132
79 Hunter College, 141
80 icosahedron, 114
81Inca (ship), 49-50
82 Kenner, Hugh, 137-138
83 Kenner, Lisa, 138
84 King, Andrew (cousin), 16
85 King, McGregor (cousin), 16
86Lady Anne (boat), 81, 113
87 Larned, Edward P. (brother-in- law), 38
88 Larned, Leslie Fuller (sister),
89 11, 21, 30, 38, 133
90 Lawrence (New York), 38, 44, 48, 57, 58, 61, 67
91Life (magazine), 107
92Lusitania (ship), 45
93 Manhattan Dome, 136
94 Marquis, Don, 99
95 Massachusetts Institute of
9697Technology (MIT), 110, 117
98 Milton (Massachusetts), 10, 11,
99 16, 19, 32, 38
100 Milton Academy, 24-28, 29, 88
101 Montreal (Quebec), 125, 128, 129, 130
102 Morley, Christopher, 99, 104
103 New York City, 31, 34, 38, 43, 61, 81, 84, 100, 102, 106, 110
104Nine Chains to the Moon (book), 99-100
105 North Carolina State
106107University at Raleigh, 120, 125
108 Obnoxico, 111
109 octet truss, 120
110 Pacific Palisade (California), 140
111 Paris Peace Conference, 54 patent, 64, 80
112 Pearson, Philip, 86---87, 88, 97
113 Philadelphia, 135, 140-141
114 Phelps Dodge Corporation, 101-102, 124
115 Phillips, Kenneth, 39, 40, 41
116 Pierce, Lincoln ‘‘Line,’’ 27, 46, 47, 48
117 play dome, 121 pollution, 130
118Polly (boat), 18
119 Porcellian Club, 29, 35 poverty, problem of, 19-20, 37 Princeton University, 85, 100
120 radio, ship-to-plane, 54---55 radome, 121
121 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 92
122 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 87, 92
123 ‘‘Rowing Needle,’’ 133
124 Sadao, Shoji, 125
125 Shapley, Harlow, 112
126Shelter (magazine), 85---86
127 Skybreak bubble (Expo ’67 dome), 125, 128, 129, 130-131
128 Snyder, Allegra Fuller (daughter), 69, 71, 72, 81, 97-99, 103, 106, 110, 113, 116, 117, 133, 140
129 Snyder, Jaime, 133, 140, 141
130 Snyder, Robert, 116, 133
131 Southern Illinois University (SIU), 121
132 Spaceship Earth, 8, 129---131, 138-140
133 Stockade Building System, 65-68, 101, 110, 114 synergetic geometry, 134 Synergetics (book), 26, 134---136
134 tetrahedra, 134
135 Three Hours for Lunch Club, 99
136 Triton City, 136
137T Square (magazine), 85
138 unemployment, problem of, 140
139 United States, 105-106
140 Airforce, 121
141 Army, 105
142 Army Air Force, 108
143 Navy, 46-52, 54-56, 105
144145pavilion at Expo ’67, 125, 128
146 United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, 51
147 University of California, 140
148 Washington, D.C., 55, 106, 132, 134
149Wego (ship), 46, 48, 106
150 Wichita (Kansas), 108, 110
151 Willetts, Daniel, 43-44
152 Williams, Al, 93
153 Wilson, Woodrow, 45, 54, 55
154 World Game, 131---132
155 World War I, 44-46, 49, 52, 54, 55, 106
156 World War II, 105-108
157 Yale University Architectural School, 85