Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor and futurist.^[1]

Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller, 1972-3
Born	(1895-07-12)July 12, 1895 Milton, Massachusetts, United States
Died	July 1, 1983(1983-07-01) (aged 87) Los Angeles, United States
Occupations	Architect engineer author designer inventor futurist
Spouse	Anne Hewlett ​ (m. 1917)​
Children	2: Allegra Fuller Snyder and Alexandra, who died in childhood

The Montreal Biosphère by Buckminster Fuller, 1967

Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", and "Synergetics".

He also used inventions, mainly architectural designs. The best known of which is the geodesic dome, the pinnacle of which would be a 5 kilometer diameter dome over Manhattan, as well as cloud nine. 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

Panoramic view of the geodesic domes at the Eden Project

Please check UNITED STATES NAVAL HISTORY for Bucky Buckminster Fuller's service to the United States of America Navy.