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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...energy fields. Crowding the spheres as close together as possible around a central sphere, he found that instead of forming a still bigger sphere, they made a 14-faced polyhedron-six of the facets in the form of squares, and eight as triangles. Fuller called this figure a vector equilibrium because the outward thrust of its radial vectors is balanced by the restraining force of its circumferential vectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Dymaxion American | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

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