Dymaxion

In 1927, renouncing personal and financial gain, inventor Buckminster Fuller entered two years of seclusion to begin in his own words: "the search for the principles governing the universe and help advance the evolution of humanity in accordance with them... finding ways of doing more with less to the end that all people everywhere can have more and more."

Buckminster Fuller left his two-year seclusion with a new word on his lips 'Dymaxion', a contraction of the words 'dynamic', 'maximum' and 'ion' that to him represented resource-efficient and self-sustaining technologies. Under the Dymaxion ideal, Fuller developed a series of inventions from lightweight homes, streamlined cars to the geodesic dome. Illustration: Mary Bellis

• The Planet's Friendly Genius - Buckminster Fuller
• The Dymaxion Line of Inventions
• Patent for the Geodesic Dome
• Highlights of Buckminster Fuller's Biography