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    into a place in traffic. R. (Richard) Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983 The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller during the Great...
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    associated with much of his work—prominently his Dymaxion house and Dymaxion car. Dymaxion, a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension; sums...
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    popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity"...
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    The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques...
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  • Last Dymaxion: Buckminster Fuller’s Dream Restored is a 2012 documentary film directed by Noel Murphy. about Buckminster Fuller's 1933 Dymaxion car as well...
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    York auto show and wrote an article on the Dymaxion Car for the society newsletter. Contemporary production cars commonly had a separate chassis and body...
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    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...
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    area, total surface area, or similar) and the drag coefficient. In 2003, Car and Driver magazine adopted this metric as a more intuitive way to compare...
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  • October 2010, CNN announced that Foster recreated Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car. "Reliance Controls factory". Foster + Partners. Retrieved June 21, 2017...
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    mechanics similar to that of a motorcycle and the rear axle similar to that of a car. Often such vehicles are owner-constructed using a portion of a rear-engine...
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    inspired future iconic American car designs:[dubious – discuss] Aptera[citation needed][dubious – discuss] Dymaxion car, designed by Buckminster Fuller[citation...
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    collaborated on several projects, including the modeling of Fuller's Dymaxion car. Upon his return, Noguchi's abstract sculptures made in Paris were exhibited...
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  • Buckminster Fuller to describe his work Dymaxion car Dymaxion house Dymaxion Chronofile Dymaxion deployment unit The Last Dymaxion, a 2012 documentary film This...
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    he partnered with Buckminster Fuller to design and build the radical Dymaxion Car. Between 1930 and 1937 he created three America's Cup winning J-Class...
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    history, used only by a few prototypes and concept cars, such as Buckminster Fuller's 1933 Dymaxion car, which was able to turn within its wheelbase thanks...
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    the Tropfenwagen by placing the wheels inside the car body Stout Scarab (1932–35, 1946), US Dymaxion car (1933), US Schlörwagen (1939), German prototype...
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    Tatra 77 (category Cars of the Czech Republic)
    inside the car body Burney cars (1929-1931), working prototypes designed by Dennis Burney and manufactured by Streamline Cars Dymaxion car (1933), US...
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  • back. (Motorcycles with sidecars; another matter.) Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car caused a sensation, but ignorance of the problems of rear-wheel-steering...
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    Schlörwagen (category Concept cars)
    placing the wheels inside the car body Stout Scarab (1932–1935, 1946), US Dymaxion car (1933), US Christopher, John (2013). The Race for Hitler's X-Planes....
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    Persu car (1922-23), designed by Romanian engineer Aurel Persu, who improved on the Tropfenwagen by placing the wheels inside the car body Dymaxion car, 1933...
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    camera dollies, early pay loaders, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car, and the ThrustSSC. In cars, rear-wheel steering tends to be unstable because, in turns...
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  • Detroit Electric Diamond Reo Trucks Doble Dorris Dort Duesenberg Durant Dymaxion Eagle Edsel Elgin Essex Excalibur Flint Frazer Frontenac Gardner Geo Graham-Paige...
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  • Noguchi on a road trip through Connecticut in a car Noguchi had designed with Buckminster Fuller, the Dymaxion car. The trio stopped to see Thornton Wilder in...
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    Fuller's Dymaxion car. The one-of-a-kind Phantom Corsair is also displayed at the museum. The museum has been named in the 'Top Ten Museums' by Car Collector...
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    Streamliner (redirect from Streamliner car)
    wheels inside the car body Burney car (1929-1931), working prototypes designed by Dennis Burney and manufactured by Streamline Cars Dymaxion (1933–1934), U...
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    Chrysler Airflow (category Cars introduced in 1934)
    and manufactured by Streamline Cars Stout Scarab (1932–35, 1946), "teardrop" US car Dymaxion car, 1933 US "teardrop" car Pierce Silver Arrow (1933) Dodge...
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    Porsche Type 12 (category 1930s cars)
    Contemporaneous prototypes with a more extreme focus on aerodynamics were the 1933 Dymaxion car and Karl Schlör's Schlörwagen, developed from 1936 to 1939. The vehicle...
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  • saucer (from The Day the Earth Stood Still) hovers over a futuristic Dymaxion car whose designer, Buckminster Fuller, sits in the driver's seat. The structure...
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  • distribution of global resources. This alternative to war games uses Fuller's Dymaxion map and requires a group of players to cooperatively solve a set of metaphorical...
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    Critical Path (1981) Dymaxion Chronofile Other Dymaxion house (1928) Dymaxion car (1933) Dymaxion deployment unit (1940) Dymaxion map (1946) Tensegrity...
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