He experimented with designing a new apparatus for human propulsion of small boats. He often made items from materials he found in the woods, and sometimes made his own tools. To him these were illogical, and led to his work on synergetics. He was dissatisfied with the way geometry was taught in school, disagreeing with the notions that a chalk dot on the blackboard represented an 'empty' mathematical point, or that a line could stretch off to infinity. įuller spent much of his youth on Bear Island, in Penobscot Bay off the coast of Maine.

He used to sign his name differently each year in the guest register of his family summer vacation home at Bear Island, Maine.

As a child, Richard Buckminster Fuller tried numerous variations of his name. The unusual middle name, Buckminster, was an ancestral family name. įuller was born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Caroline Wolcott Andrews, and grand-nephew of Margaret Fuller, an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. He also served as the second World President of Mensa International from 1974 to 1983. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as ' Spaceship Earth', ' Dymaxion' (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), ' ephemeralization', ' synergetics', and ' tensegrity'.įuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. Richard Buckminster Fuller ( / ˈ f ʊ l ər/ July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.

Oblivion application load error