Index
1 Agassiz, 74
2 ‘‘Aleph, The’’ (Borges), 29
3 American Institute of Architects, 15, 163, 171
4 Ananda Meditation Retreat, 244
5 Anderson, Quentin, 312
6 Andrews, Caroline Wolcott, 66--7
7 Antheil, George, 153
8 Apollo 16, 315--6
9 Archimedes, 1, 57, 82, 113, 239
10Architectural Forum, 247--8, 251--2, 310
11Architecture of Molecules (Pauling), 119
12Architecture of the Well--Tempered
13Environment (Banham), 203
14 Aristotle, 93
15 Armour & Co., 18, 153--5
16 Augustus, Emperor, 301
17 automation, 294
18 Avogadro, Amadeo, 140
19 balloon frame, 210--11
20 Banham, Reyner, 203
21 Barlow, W., 116
22 Bauhaus, 203
23 Bear Island, 67--72, 77, 94, 166, 172, 217, 246, 261, 278
24 Bell, Alexander Graham, 56, 64--6, 285
25 Bergman, Carl, 61
26 Black Mountain College, 6, 121, 235,
27 237
28 Bleriot, Louis, 73
29 Bloom, Dr. Benjamin, 278
30 Boeing Company, 186, 262
31 Bohr, Niels, 9
32 Borelli, Giovanni A., 61
33 Borges, Jorge Luis, 29
34 Brancusi, Constantin, 153
35 Brand, Stewart, 261, 291 bubbles, 99, 127, 129, 132--6,147,315
36 Buck Rogers, 2
37 Buddha, 260
38 Bundy, McGeorge, 79
39 Burgess, Gelett, 56
40 Burgess, Starling, 215, 280
41 Byron, Lord, 36
42 Calder, Alexander, 238
43 California Time Machine, 48--51
44 Calthorpe, Peter, 259
45 Campbell, J., & Robinson, H. M., 4
46Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 6
47Cantos (Pound), 6
48 Capone, Al, 51, 168
49 334 | carbon molecules, 118--9, 150, 297 Cathay (Pound), 299 Catullus, G. V., 310 Champoilion, J. F., 72 Chaplin, Charlie, 20, 267--8 Chapman, George, 251 Chaucer, 6
50 Chicago Institute of Design, 302 China, Mainland, 272, 304
51 Clinton, Joe, 246 college, uses of, 80--5 Columbus, Christopher, 194 compression, 70, 92, 100--1, 120, 121, 123, 144, 183, 201, 220, 234, 236--7, 315--6
52 Confucius, 260
53 Continuous Man, 194--5, 199 coordinate system, 10, 48, 109, 119, 121, 125--6, 133, 142--4, 150, 277, 312
54 Copernicus, 9
55 Coxeter, Prof. H. S. M., 2, 120 crank, American, 173--7, 276 Cronkite, Walter, 5 cube, 8, 43, 84, 108, 111, 113, 116, 119, 120, 126, 144, 170, 242--3, 258, 264, 276, 301, 316
56 cuboctahedron, 1--2, 82--3, 113, 117--8
57 Daniel, Arnaut, 83--4 Dante, 36, 83
58 Darwin, Charles, 75, 294, 299 De Forest, Lee, 101--2, 127 de Gourmont, Remy, 84 Delos, 180 de Monvel, Maurice Boutet, 202 Descartes, Rend, 161, 297 design, 43, 63, 154, 182--3 DNA, 52, 145 dodecahedron, 113, 243, 276 Domebook, 231, 232, 246, 259, 261, 262, 264, 312
59 Donne, John, 23, 267
60 Douglas, C. H., 191, 192, 193
61 Doxiadis, Constantine, 290
62 Drexler, Arthur, 239
63 Dryden, John, 301
64 Dumas, Alexandre, Jr., 58
65 Duryea, Charles, 56 ‘‘Dymaxion,’’ 78, 113, 163 Dymaxion Bathroom, 212--3, 217, 265
66 Dymaxion Car, 3, 15, 51, 213--7, 281, 312
67 Dymaxion Chronofile, 166
68 Dymaxion House (includes 4--D House and Wichita House), 78, 201--9, 212, 224, 228, 233--4, 247, 253, 265, 268, 280, 302
69 Dymaxion Map, 1--2, II, 111--3, 177, 178--9, 181, 224, 234--5, 251, 287, 289, 303
70 E = mc2, 29, 111, 220, 222, 275 ecosystem, house as, 203--4 Eddington, Sir Arthur, 125 Eddy, Mary Baker, 268 Eiffel Tower, 55, 58--9, 77
71 Einstein, Albert, 9, 29, 126, 139, 220, 225, 251, 274--6, 296
72 Eliot, President, 80
73 Eliot, T. S., 4, 79, 84
74 Emerson, R. W„ 73, 147--51, 158, 168, 169, 220
75 Empire State Building, 243
76 Energetic Geometry, 173, 177, 227, 276
77 ephemeralization, 18, 56, 59, 60 Euclid, 11, 37, 57, 177, 239, 241 Expo Dome, see Montreal Dome extensions of man, 25
78Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Gardner), 174
79 Farrell, Barry, 278--9
80Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 4, 144, 195, 301, 310, 311
81 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 156
82 Flatiron Building, 56
83 Flatland, 39
84 Flaubert, Gustave, 272--3
85 Ford, Henry, Sr., 20, 26, 73, 161, 208, 220--1, 225, 229, 233, 254
86 Ford Dome, 53, 245--6, 247--9, 279
87 Ford Motor Company, 66, 245--7, 262
88Fortune, 100, 177, 224--6, 296
89 4--D Control Syndicate, 167--8
90 4--D House, see Dymaxion House
91 Franklin, Ben, 217
92 frog ovum, 145--6
93 Fuller, Alexandra, 158--9
94 Fuller, Allegra, see Snyder, Allegra
95 Fuller, Anne (Mrs. B. F.), 17, 27, 47--9, 51, 156, 159, 168
96 Fuller, Caroline Andrews (B. F.’s mother), 66--8
97 Fuller, Hon. Timothy, 73, 75
98 Fuller, Margaret, 73, 147, 168, 233
99 Fuller, R. B., Sr. (B. F.’s father), 55, 67, 73, 74, 77
100 Fuller, Rev. Arthur Buckminster, 73, 74
101 Fuller, Rev. Timothy, 73, 75
102 Fuller, Waldo, 72
103 Fuller Research Foundation, 3
104 Galileo, 104
105 Gandhi, Mahatma, 313
106 Gardner, Martin, 174 genius, 21, 51, 64, 273
107 Geodesic Domes, 3, 5, 6, 7, 15, 40--1, 44, 62, 91, 116, 120--1, 133, 150, 173, 177, 229--62, 263--4, 270, 290, 301--2, 312--3
108 Giedion, Sigfried, 61, 210, 212, 265
109 Gilette, 174
110 Gnostics, 268
111 Gravitational Constant; 143 gravity, 96--7
112 Great Pyramid, 96, 121, 154
113Hair, 310
114 Hall, Edward T„ 256--7, 266
115 Hardie, Jim, 72, 79
116 Harvard, 30, 31, 73--80, 82, 84, 130, 151, 153, 275
117 Heisenberg, Werner, 161
118 Heraclitus, 8, 299
119 Hewlett, James Monroe, 156--8
120 Hexland, 140--3
121Hidden Dimension (Hall), 256--7
122 Hippasos, 137
123History of Aesthetics (Bosanquet), 153
124 Hogden, Lee, 87, 238
125 Holt, John, 308--9
126 Homer, 3, 8, 9, 20, 21, 80, 194, 251, 299
127How Children Fail (Holt), 308
128How Children Learn (Holt), 308
129 icosahedron, 78, 113, 117, 119, 120, 150, 239, 240--1, 243, 244--5, 276, 301
130Ideas and Integrities (Fuller), 7, 130 industrial vs. craft tools, 10 infinity, 34--6, 76, 105, 132, 303, 309 Intuition (Fuller), 168
131 Inventory of Scientific Events, 222--3 irrational numbers, 137--9, 141
132 James, Henry, 66, 74, 254
133 Jeans, Sir James, 125
134 Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 246--7, 307
135 Jell--O, 29, 101, 239, 291
136 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 151, 301 Joyce, James, 4, 8, 153, 285, 303, 311 Julius Caesar, 23
137 Kahn, Lloyd, 232, 260--2, 268
138 Kepler, Johannes, 147, 276--7
139 Khrushchev, Nikita, 18, 51
140 Kilpatrick, James J., 195
141 King, Andy, 71
142 King, Rockwell, 67
143 knots, 8, 22--4, 29, 30, 103, 111, 147, 198
144 Koestler, Arthur, 126--7, 277
145 Korzybski, Count, 94
146 Kriyananda, Swami, 259
147 Kuhn, Thomas S., 299
148 Lavoisier, 28
149 Lawson, A. W., 174--5
150 Le Corbusier, 203, 257
151 Lewis, Wyndham, 17
152Life, 1, 278
153 life expectancy, 55
154 Lincoln, A., 10, 127, 130, 155
155 Lindbergh, Charles A., 161, 226
156 Longfellow, Henry W., Jr., 56, 71,
157 74
158 Luce, Henry R., 281
159 Lyell, Sir Charles, 299
160 Madison Square Garden, 243
161 Malthus, Thomas, 75--7, 130, 154,
162 224
163 Marconi, Guglielmo, 56, 59, 155
164 Marine Corps, 256
165 Marks, Robert W., 8
166 Marquand, J. P., 73, 264--5
167 Marx, Karl, 294
168 Mather, Cotton, 260
169 Maupassant, Guy de, 58
170 McCarthy, Sen. Eugene, 305
171 McLuhan, Marshall, 171
172 Mendelejeff, Dmitri, 298
173 Mercator, 2, 5, 11, 303
174 Michelangelo, 64
175 Michelson, A. A., 274
176 Miller, Henry, 260
177 Miller, Marilyn, 78
178 Milton, John, 171, 303
179 Milton Academy, 74, 77
180Modern Times (Chaplin), 267--8
181 Moehlman, John, 238
182 Montessori, 38, 92, 271, 273
183 Montreal Dome, 133, 234, 253, 254, 264, 270, 302
184 Moore, Marianne, 220
185 Munson, Gorham, 192
186 Museum of Modern Art, 15, 57, 121
187 myth, 129--32, 295
188 NASA, 178, 184--5, 246, 313
189National Geographic, 65
190Nation’s Business, 164
191Nature of the Chemical Bond (Pauling), 119, 277
192 Nehru, 51
193 Newcomb, Prof. Simon, 60, 75, 165, 178
194 Newton, Sir Isaac, 29, 98, 130, 133, 147, 177, 274--5, 277, 298, 299
195Nine Chains to the Moon (Fuller), 267, 269, 275, 280
196No More Secondhand God (Fuller), 7, 226
197 octahedron, 49, 57, 108--9, 113, 114,
- 117.
- 119, 243, 276, 294
198 ‘‘Octa Spinner,’’ 91
199 Octet Truss, 57--8, 66, 108--10, 117,
- 118.
- 143, 249, 285, 286, 297, 301
200Odyssey, 20
201 Ogden, C. K„ 94
202 O’Malley, Walter, 240, 263
203 Outlaw Area, 68--9, 168
204 Pantheon, 249--50
205 paper as paradigm, 301--3
206Paradise Lost (Milton), 171
207 patent theory, 285
208 pattern, self--interfering, 22, 26
209 patterned integrity, 23, 98, 100
210 Pauling, Linus, 119, 277
211 phantom captain, 19--20, 23, 34, 54,
212 171, 267, 268
213 Phelps--Dodge Copper Co., 213, 217, 218, 222, 224
214 Phi Beta Kappa, 13, 80
215pi, 10, 80, 99, 132--7, 146
216 Picasso, 20, 251
217 Pisa, Tower of, 77
218 Placer County Administrative Center, 259
219 Planck, Max, 59, 222
220 Planck’s Constant, 143
221 Plato, 239, 276
222 Platonic Solids, 113, 117, 241--3, 276
223 Poe, E. A., 174, 175
224 politics, 18, 25, 26, 178, 303--5
225 pollution, 18, 36, 46, 164, 178, 197,
226 279
227 Pope, Ted, 238
228 Pound, Ezra, 4, 6, 8, II, 38, 83--4,
229 152--3, 192, 299
230 precession, 99--100, 183, 225
231 Pythagoras, 11, 12, 48, 118, 140, 296,
232 297, 298, 299
233 Pythagoreans, 137--9, 146, 147, 150,
234 241, 251, 296 racism, 178--82, 287--8
235 Rauschenberg, Robert, 310
236Reader’s Digest, 3
237 regeneration, 102--3, 120, 128, 265
238 revolutions, 18, 227, 272
239 Richter, Don, 245
240 Rockefeller, Nelson, 182
241 Romer, Olaus, 275
242 Roentgen, W. K., 56
243 Roosevelt, F. D., 303
244 rope and knot, 22--4, 127
245 Rousseau, J. J., 271
246 ‘‘Rowing Device,’’ 71
247 Russia, 272, 304
248 Sadao, Shoji, 262
249 St. Peter’s, 249--50
250 Sala, Francesco della, 238
251 Salk, Dr. Jonas, 222
252 San Quentin Prison, 68 Santayana, George, 80 schools, 37--8, 79--80, 305--9 Shakespeare, 4, 5, 20, 84, 307 Shelter, 94
253 ship, car as, 215; man as, 19; universe as, 70
254 Skinner, B. F., 268 slaves, energy, 44--6, 188 sleep (Dymaxion), 3, 160 Sleepwalkers, The (Koestler), 126 Snelson, Kenneth, 121, 238, 285 Snow, George Washington, 210 Snow, Lord (C. P.), 5
255 Snyder, Allegra (Fuller), 159, 199, 205
256 Snyder, Robert, 306
257 Soddy, Frederick, 192
258 Somerset Club, 74, 77
259 ”spending,’’ 9, 99, 100, 184--98 sphere, 134--6
260Stability and Change in Human Characteristics (Bloom), 278
261 Stanley, Ray, 77
262 Stein, Gertrude, 176
263 Stockade Building System, 155--8, 201
264 Stonehenge, 63, 250
265Structure of Scientific Revolutions
266 (Kuhn), 299 sunset, 14, 93--4 surfer, 98--100, 147 Symmes, 174 synergy, 31------4, 87, 90, 91, 138, 165, 173, 177--8, 192, 223, 234, 286, 313
267 Teed, 174 telephone, 56, 182--4, 201, 256--8 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 53 tensegrity, 63, 101, 173, 237--40, 292 tensegrity icosahedron, 238--40 Tensegrity Mast, 15, 121--3, 238, 285
268 Tensegrity Sphere, 86--93, 95--101, 103--7, 121--4, 263, 311 tensile strength, 32--3, 91 tension, 69--70, 71, 92--3, 95, 100--1, 120, 121, 122--4, 144, 183, 201, 220, 234, 236--7, 315--6 tetrahedron, 16, 49, 57, 64--5, 98, 105, 107--9, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 125, 145, 150, 173, 243, 276, 277, 297, 315 textile mill, 79, 151--2 Theobald, Robert, 193 Thompson, Sir D’Arcy W., 61--3
269 Thoreau, H. D„ 73, 149, 189, 209--10, 217, 220, 232, 233, 297, 312, 313
270Time, 3
271Timelock (Fuller), 165--77, 279--80 Titian, 5 tree, 8, 69, 101, 144 triangles, 34--7, 39--41, 48--9, 64, 107, 136, 239
272 tuning, 24, 25, 30, 124--5, 128 TV camera, lunar, 184--7
273Ulysses (Joyce), 131, 153
274Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization (Fuller), 226--7
275 ”up’’ and ”down,’’ 93--5, 124, 126
276Utopia or Oblivion (Fuller), 130, 277, 278
277 Vector Equilibrium, 83, 107--18, 120, 126, 127, 129, 134, 142--4, 146, 294, 297, 298
278 vectors, 104--5, 118, 127, 133
279 Verne, Jules, 61
280 virus molecules, 120--1, 150
281Walden (Thoreau), 209, 233, 313
282 Washington Monument, 57--8, 246
283 Watt, James, 130, 191
284 waves, 98--100
285 Whistler, J. A. M., 153
286Whole Earth Catalog, 152, 178, 217, 232, 233, 261, 313
287 Wichita House, see Dymaxion House
288 Williams, William Carlos, 220
289 Wolcott, Alexander, 66
290 Wolcott, Roger, 66
291 Wombland, 28
292 Wordsworth, William, 133
293 World Game, 217, 224, 282--4, 288
294 World Resources Inventory, 217
295 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 142, 221--2, 264
296 Wright Brothers, 59--60, 63--4, 68--9, 222, 294
297 Yeats, W. B„ 8, 52--3, 80
298 Zeno, 37
299 Zeppelin, Count, 59
300 Zulu, 44