BUCKY FULLER'S (1895-1983) Structural & Conceptual Inventions A designer of the future? Buckminster Fuller is/was America greatest architect/ inventor (poet & artist) in 20th century, with dozens of talents, discoveries & innovations, like Leonardo DaVinci? He had very poor sight & hearing, his whole life, & globally communicating his awareness from 1960s on, till he suddenly died in ’83 when his wife was silently passing. Bucky, his friends called him, was the most articulate long- winded speaking inventor & author in Western history. He spoke for 3-5 hours non-stop, about earth, evolution of universe, geodesics & our impetrative needs to transform our wasteful civilization technology now, “Utopia or Oblivion”. He was a idealist radical technocrat, poet, inventor, mathematician, artist, philosopher & visionary, authoring a dozen published books. He became famous for his geodesic dome & godfather of Whole Earth Catalog, Cir ‘70s. In China his book “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth” the best selling non-fiction book there in 1970s. In mid ‘70s He wrote & pub. 2 huge volumes of ”Synergetics - the geometry of thinking”are very dense, natural geometry, numerology & philosophy. He spoke live, without notes to millions of people in his last 20 yrs, promoting a design-science-revolution in super efficient hi tech. Beyond the famous giant domes & hippy dome homes in the woods. He appealed mostly to architects, utopians & hippies to change designs in a ccoperating world into peace & all human needs filled fairly. Fuller’s primary Conceptual - designs World game – a 5-20 day long seminar of analyzing world resources, human trends & needs, to find most efficient ways. WG computer programming to input global energy data & monitor humans needs & resource conserving with inventions. Predicting systems comprehensive anticipatory design science Synergy the new spontaneous connections of whole systems The essence of discovery of new combinations now Ephemeralizing doing more with less = efficiency) in time effort & space, miniaturizing, streamlining, perfecting, Global energy grid connecting continental electric systems, To equalize people needing energy to survive & grow Livingry, not weaponry convert our extremely- wasteful global-War-machines into mass producible geodesic dwellings, As he disliked, ignored & criticized politics as useless & futile. Geodesic geometry expanding the ‘platonic solid’ geometry to Include spherical patterns, with great circles & centers. Vector equilibrium= cube-octahedron jitterbug the only geodesic shape-shifts into 100s of variations, was found in some primitive relics, cut (marble?) stone Natural energy sources he promoted to replace fossil & nuclear power are hyper expensive & polluting earth with toxins. Nations & industry cooperate to up efficiency & stop war games, to benefit all people equally, Dymaxion a system using the least material for any function Floating geodesic dome city in sky (theory) of 1/2 mile in diameter Spaceship Earth concept/book of global systems of evolution World Citizen in global village how we’re connected in needs, traveling & circling around earth 17 times teaching it Structural System designs & many patents >Round hanging (on a post) house, 1920s >Dymaxion car: egg shaped, V-8 engine, on 3 wheels, 1930s Dymaxion world map (40s) icosahedron, the lays-out/folds up, Intuited the natural cosmic earth energy grid system, later evolved by others in ‘70s & ‘80s, by Russians, Becker & Hagens. Geodesic dome - late 40s, portable design, first used by US ‘dew-lines’ radar-domes to protect U$ in (fake?) cold-war Geodesic toys to illustrate geodesic triangle-spherical- geometry Tetrahedronal house mass producible, living in tetra pyramids A Super rowboat & other inventions, patents, not mass produced Montreal world-fair Dome covering the experimental US pavilion. Floating tetrahedronal (model) city multi-tetra/ Pyramid (tetramid) community on water movable around a coast or river. Geoscope a Dymaxion (icosa) globe with world resource data on it Programmed 2 show changing new info on energy flows & human needs. Great Pirates generations of empire builders who learn to use the secret designs, inventions, codes, weapons & world trade-routes to gather resources for building controls. After Fuller died in 1983, a new geodesic global- map was published by Becker & Hegans of icosa- dodecahedron, (Fuller found in ‘1940s) that corresponds to many earth energy patterns & natural power-points. In late 80s the new element ‘carbon 60’ was intuited, found in ‘90s & named Buckminsterfullerine or Buckyball, the shape of penta/hexahedron & popular soccer-ball. It was researched by scientists to find its functions & potentials for industry. One man use the Buckyball for new multi -dimensional molecular energetics of (natural?) ‘nuclear physics’ element. Fuller was a cosmic geometry genius, a prophet of super tech & energy conservation designer that few know now how geodesic geometry pervades all nature, even astronomy, astrology, mineralogy, organic chemistry & cellular functions. Some intuit that crystallography has geodesic geometry.