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Buckminster Fuller, born on this day in 1895, designed or imagined a lot of things: geodesic domes, synergetics and theoretical worlds like Spaceship Earth and Dymaxion World. Some of his ideas stood ...

Eighty-five years ago, on Oct. 18, 1933, R. Buckminster Fuller filed for a patent for his most notorious (and really, his only) automotive invention: the Dymaxion Car. U.S. patent No. 2,101,057 was ...

One of humanity’s longest-surviving dreams has always been that of conquering land, water and air, preferably at the same time, with just one vehicle. To this day, this dream has never been fully ...

Did you know that Bridgeport was once the home of “the car of the future?” It was the Tesla of its era, but only three were ever built. Jim Cameron This mystery vehicle? The Dymaxion Car. The designer ...

Beginning June 26, io9ers located in and around New York City can view an artifact of retro-futurist history when the only surviving example of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion car goes on display at the ...

In 1932, Buckminster Fuller made a simple drawing comparing a standard car body to a horse-and-buggy. His picture showed that both vehicles had essentially the same geometry. The hood and passenger ...

Buckminster Fuller, an architect, engineer and philosopher, produces the first of three three-wheeled, multidirectional Dymaxion cars in Bridgeport, Conn., on July 12, 1933 -- his 38th birthday.

The future of transportation did not proceed according to plan. Touted as the greatest advance since the horse-and-buggy when it rolled out of the factory in 1933, the first car that Buckminster ...

Buckminster Fuller's 1933 foray into automobiles gave us the Dymaxion Car, and enthusiast Jeff Lane has one of the only working replicas in the world. WSJ's Rumble Seat columnist Dan Neil takes the ...

A new book about the inventor and thinker shows that his ideas might have been ahead of their time—but they’re still incredibly vital. Think of Buckminster Fuller, the 20th-century innovator, and you ...

From the June 15, 2008 New York Times: Buckminster Fuller’s 1933 Dymaxion, a streamlined pod on three wheels, is one of the lovable oddballs in automotive history. Three were built, fawned over by the ...