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  2. Dome Sweet Dome - AOL

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    In 1954, Buckminster Fuller received the U.S. patent for the geodesic dome, a hemi-spherical structure built on a frame of interlocking polygons. (Picture living inside of a giant soccer ball, and ...

  3. Geodesic dome - Wikipedia

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    A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The rigid triangular elements of the dome distribute stress throughout the structure, making geodesic domes able to withstand very heavy loads for their size.

  4. ASM Headquarters and Geodesic Dome - Wikipedia

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    The geodesic dome was designed by Thomas C. Howard, the owner of Synergetics, Inc., in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thomas C. Howard designed many other geodesic domes, such as Climatron Conservatory at Missouri Botanical Gardens, the Union Tank Car Company dome (now demolished) in Baton Rouge, LA, and Poliedro de Caracas in Venezuela.

  5. R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home - Wikipedia

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    The house, inhabited by Fuller while he taught at Southern Illinois University, was the only geodesic dome Fuller lived in, as well as the only property he ever owned. Fuller, a prolific architect and engineer, popularized the geodesic dome as a building design, and his house was one of the first geodesic dome residences to be constructed.

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  7. Dome over Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    The Dome over Manhattan was a 1959 proposal for a 3-kilometer-diameter geodesic domed city covering Midtown Manhattan by the architects Buckminster Fuller and Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc.

  8. A rare geodesic dome home for sale near Adel is ready to ...

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    Quirky, secluded and possibly unique, a $479,000 house for sale close to Adel is a rare example of a residential property built around a very unusual geodesic dome. Custom designed in 1981, the ...

  9. Richard Buckminster Fuller - Wikipedia

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    At Black Mountain, with the support of a group of professors and students, he began reinventing a project that would make him famous: the geodesic dome. Although the geodesic dome had been created, built and awarded a German patent on June 19, 1925, by Dr. Walther Bauersfeld, Fuller was awarded United States patents. Fuller's patent application ...

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