R. Buckminster Fuller Essay, Research Paper
Richard Buckminster Fuller was an enginer, mathemitican, and an architect. Twice expelled from Harvard University, buisiness disasters and the death of his four year old daughter brought him close to suicide. He decided to devote his life to proving that technology could save the world from itsself, providing it is properly used. He examined a vertorial system of geometry, Energetic-Synergetic geometry, based on the tetrahedron which provides maximum strength with inimum structure. This led to his patent of a geodesic dome in 1947, a building the strength of which need only increase as the log of its size. Fuller was a research professor at Carbondale, Southern Illinios University, from 1959 to 1968. In 1968 he became a university professor and retired in 1975.