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In a contemporary video (see External links, below), Fuller notes that good friend Amelia Earhart asked that the Dymaxion be her official car for the celebration of her receiving the National Gold Medal from National Geographic. Dymaxion Prototype Two was driven to Washington and garnered considerable publicity.
The Dymaxion car, c. 1933, artist Diego Rivera shown entering the car, carrying coat. The Dymaxion car was a vehicle designed by Fuller, featured prominently at Chicago's 1933-1934 Century of Progress World's Fair. [60] During the Great Depression, Fuller formed the Dymaxion Corporation and built three prototypes with noted naval architect ...
[7] [8] Fuller designed and built three car prototypes shaped like zeppelin and called them Dymaxion, short for Dynamic Maximum Tension. The filmmaker, Noel Murphy, a descendant of a General Motors founder, has spent about $100,000 so far, traveling to Fuller archives and New England factory sites and interviewing those interested in Fuller.
Dymaxion is a term coined by architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller and associated with much of his work, prominently his Dymaxion house and Dymaxion car. A portmanteau of the words dynamic , maximum , and tension , [ 1 ] Dymaxion sums up the goal of his study, "maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input".
All players must work together, ostensibly as one common team (though organizers often opt to split them into smaller teams), to develop strategies for meeting this goal using the latest data, preferably in as short a time or as efficiently as possible—an analogous board game format would be cooperative gameplay, while an analogous video game ...
Dymaxion is a term coined by Buckminster Fuller to describe his work. Dymaxion may also refer to: Dymaxion map, a map projection that minimizes distortion of landmasses; Dymaxion car; Dymaxion house; Dymaxion Chronofile; Dymaxion deployment unit; The Last Dymaxion, a 2012 documentary film
The Dymaxion Chronofile is Buckminster Fuller's attempt to document his life as completely as possible. He created a very large scrapbook in which he documented his life from 1917 to 1983. Fuller describes his Chronofile as "[contribution] to the scientific documentation of the emergent realization of the era of accelerating-acceleration of ...
The article claims that the Dymaxion used a Ford V8 engine, but the link appears to be busted and in a documentary I just watched which mentions the car ("Ecological Design -Inventing the Future"), they claim that the car ran on what was essentially the equivalent of a lawnmower motor.