The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller
- ISBN-10
- 0385018045
- ISBN-13
- 9780385018043
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1973
- Publisher
- Anchor Books
- Authors
- Richard Buckminster Fuller, Robert W. Marks
Description
If R. Buckminster Fuller had been pulling the strings of corporate America, it's possible we would be living in a world of three-wheel cars, aluminum houses, and domed cities.Fuller never enjoyed that kind of power or authority. In fact, a good deal of his 24 patents and many other improbable schemes came to nothing. But Bucky-as he was universally known-was destined to be ahead of his time.
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