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Most startling achievement that FORTUNE records: that throughout ten years of depression the U. S. citizen's power to consume has increased more rapidly than ever before in history. Charts prepared by rotund little Richard Buckminster Fuller, creator of the Dymaxion House and Dymaxion car, establish that, in relation to each citizen in the rest of the world, the U. S. citizen is rich in the forces that developing technology has potentially made available, so rich that "the important fact is not that an old era has passed but that a new era has been born...
Nine Chains to the Moon is not Author Fuller's first demonstration of his invincible faith in man's future. Designer of the famed Dymaxion- house, inventor of the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion car, Buckminster Fuller is a New Englander who looks like a businessman and talks like a prophet of the coming technological millennium. A Harvard alumnus, he decoded radio messages in the navy during the War, became a manufacturer of molds for reinforced concrete afterwards, and in 1927, when he lost control of his business, settled in Chicago slums for a year to work...
...first result of his pondering, the Dymaxion house, streamlined, suspended from a mast and containing a self-acting sewage system, made it plain that Mr. Fuller was the most fertile and inventive U. S. designer of pre-fabricated housing...
This car, which Dr. Bridges calls "Lightning Bug," looks something like the Dymaxion designed by Architect Richard Buckminster Fuller (TIME, June 12, 1933), but is smaller and squattier. It is almost perfectly streamlined, even the license plates and tail-lamp being recessed into the body and covered with Pyralin windows flush with the streamlining. There are no door handles; the doors must be opened with special keys. Dr. Bridges pronounced the Lightning Bug crash-proof and carbon-monoxide-proof. "My whole aim," said he, "was to show what could be done to attain safety, economy and readability in a small...
...dymaxion, invented by Buckminster Fuller '17 and built by Phillip C. Pearson '18, has the appearance of an airplane without wings: it contains a Ford V-8 engine, and is supported by only three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. The original dymaxion had a wooden body, and was wrecked in an accident on its maiden trip to Chicago. Its descendant, however, has an all steel body and cannot be smashed in, it weighs 3600 pounds, has a 182 inch wheelbase, and will turn in an 11 foot circle. One of the cars, which sell...