Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fuller's name was once best known for its association with the Dymaxion House, the first version of which was a life valve designed to hang from a central mast containing an elevator. But today this once revolutionary idea is old stuff, and superseded by the Fuller Geodesic Dome. The dome is as big as one likes, made up of small spherical triangles pinned together. In appropriate sizes, it can be made to shelter anything from newlyweds to a railway terminal with less weight and hence less cost, and, Bucky hopes, be more resistant to hurricanes or atomic-bomb...
Last summer the Museum of Modern Art plugged a model of a Geodesic Dome into its landscape of Manhattan's West 53rd Street and drew as many as 2,000 spectators on a Sunday. This spring, the Ford Motor Co. will unveil a go-footer, made of such gossamer materials as aluminum spars, Orion fabric and Fiberglas, to enclose a large court in its Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky...
...give its passengers a full dose of scenery on runs between Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle, the Milwaukee Road will put into service ten 68-passenger Super Dome lounge cars on Jan. 1. The double-decker coaches, which were displayed this week, were built by Pullman-Standard Car Mfg. Co. for $3,200,000. Each has more than three times as much glass-top viewing area (625 sq. ft.) as the older dome cars. On the lower level of each car there is a 28-person dining and lounge section...
...California tried its luck in 1938. It went down 10,281 ft. before it gave up. Then in 1946 Amerada got interested. In buying a block of leases it got some that Standard had let lapse on the area known as the Nesson Anticline (see chart), a gently sloping dome of rock. (The surface anticline, i.e., an upward fold of porous rock, often indicates a similar undergound dome under which oil frequently is imprisoned.) With the first batch of leases in its pocket, Amerada sent brokers all over the area, leasing more thousands of acres of land. Says Jacobsen: "When...
What Dr. Weatherby and staff were looking for was the peak of the underground dome. When this area was plotted on an ordinary contour map, it was time for Jacobsen & Co. to weigh all the geologic and other factors and make the final decision to drill. The big work was preparing the maps and locating the possible oil-bearing area; picking the spot to drill was easy. Says Jacobsen: "Any office boy at Amerada could have done that because you drill in the peak of the dome. As long as you stay in that area you could pick your spot...