dymaxion

[ dahy-mak-see-uhn ]

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to R. Buckminster Fuller's concept of the use of technology and resources to maximum advantage, with minimal expenditure of energy and material.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dymaxion¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

The most popular was an image of Fuller’s Dymaxion Map, which depicts the surface of the earth as an unfolded polyhedron.

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On July 12, 1933, his thirty-eighth birthday, they put the final touches on Dymaxion Car #1.

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Fuller was far from the last technologist to underestimate the risks of the automotive business, where the cost of error was measured in human lives, but he always spoke as though the Dymaxion Car had been destroyed by nothing but public ignorance and bad luck.

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On July 21, 1933, the architectural designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller unveiled the first prototype of his iconic Dymaxion Car.

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The fate of Dymaxion Car #1 was indeed a tragedy, but for reasons that had nothing to do with the myth that Fuller invented.

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