Buckminster Fuller: Inventor And American Engineering
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an inventor , architect, and American engineer. He designed buildings to work with technology to meet the needs of modern life.He also made many designs for automobiles, buildings, and cities. In 1940, Fuller came up with a new idea for a domed structure. He called this structure a geodesic dome. A geodesic dome is great and light. It covers a vast open space with no inside supports. Born in Milton, Massachusetts, July 12,1895, the son of Richard Buckminster and Caroline Wolcott was Buckminster fuller also known as bucky. As a young boy he attended Froebelian Kindergarten. As a child he had trouble with geometry, or that an imperfectly drawn line with an arrow on the end was meant to stretch off