Word: dymaxion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explain to the Saturday Review all that he had learned during his years since birth. The magazine had the temerity to ask Bucky to keep it down to 5,000 words-a paralyzing limitation for a man who can talk on for hours about his "dymaxion" concepts, geodesic domes, and practically everything else in the universe. Still, he managed. "I have not learned how or why the universe contrived to implode and intellectually code the myriadly unique, chromosomically orchestrated DNA-RNA, quadripartite moleculed, binary-paired, helically extended, and unzippingly dichotomied, regenerative symphonic jazz," he admitted^ in sesquipedalian Fullerese. In fact...
...military establishment (Guard of Honor), the clergy (Men and Brethren), and medicine (The Last Adam). In the past, the animator has been an individual who, by partial dissent, has lifted the various strands of a society into a tension which made them as visible as struts in a Dymaxion dome...
...just imported from France. Fuller's 4D (for Fourth Dimension) title for the house seemed drab to the promotion-minded store executives; they assigned a couple of high-powered word-sculptors to work out a new word for it. After two days of hectic brainstorming, the result was "dymaxion"-vaguely compounded of "dynamic," "maximum" and "ion." Marshall Field copyrighted it in Fuller's name, and in the years to come Bucky turned it into what amounted to a personal trademark. Today he explains that it means the "maximum gain of advantage from the minimal energy input...
...Administration. The war also brought Fuller another change: for the first time since he started his life over again in 1927, he was able to originate something that was not "anticipatory" but actually put to use: adapting mass-produced grain storage silos for military living units. Hundreds of these "Dymaxion Deployment Units" saw service in the Pacific and the Persian Gulf before restrictions tightened on steel and the project ground to a halt...
Shape of Nature. "Failure-prone" Fuller had another disappointment in store for him; just as a new version of his Dymaxion House seemed about to go into production in a three-way deal between venture capital, big labor and the aircraft industry, the war's end and a changed economic picture killed the project. But then suddenly, it seemed, he produced the jackpot invention: shelter that was transportable, versatile and cheap-the dome...