Word: fuller
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON-R. Buckminster Fuller-Lippincott...
...people on the earth stood on one another's shoulders, they would make nine chains to the moon. For most citizens, that thought is likely to be more alarming than otherwise, but for Richard Buckminster Fuller it is profoundly reassuring: it suggests "the littleness of our universe" when viewed by an unfrightened mind, and it reminds him that man has been made too conscious of his physical smallness to be aware of his own powers and potentialities...
That Author Fuller himself never forgets those possibilities was demonstrated last week when he published his first book -an extraordinary 408-page volume which includes 22 prophesies of developments in the next decade, a chart showing world copper resources and reserves, a chronology of scientific events since 3400 B.C., informal, iconoclastic discussions of economics, sociology, history, climate, mathematics, geography, the Bible, Henry Ford, Rockefeller, Leonardo da Vinci, taxes, death and housing...
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...