The Dymaxion Car of R. Buckminster Fuller is being restored by the company Crosthwaite and Gardiner. See synchronofile.com for details.

Buckminster Fuller was a creationist. Is that a mark for or against his work? Read his words on the subject at synchronofile.com.

New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller, edited by Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto G. Trujillo, has just been published by Stanford University Press. For more information, see http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=9084

I am not an employee of Stanford University Press, nor do I profit by announcing this title. Anyone curious about my own publications on Fuller is welcome to learn more at synchronofile.com

July the 12th was a significant day for R. Buckminster Fuller. Read why at synchronofile.com.

☂ Previously uncollected book and magazine blurbs by R. Buckminster Fuller, literary critic, at synchronofile.com.

☂ "Buckminster Fuller and the Homeless of New York." Fuller opened two homeless shelters in 1932 NYC.

New essay The Lost Inventions of Buckminster Fuller Part 3 of 3 now online for free.

"Inventions, the Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller" is a good introduction to Fuller’s many inventions. It is the basis for this overview of Fuller’s patented work. But "Inventions" does not include all of Fuller’s inventions, nor are all the inventions in "Inventions" by Fuller. Some inventions relevant to Fuller’s work are not included in "Inventions." Part three this three-part essay features the lost inventions of Buckminster Fuller, works that were not patented or which do not appear in "Inventions," and works that should have been in "Inventions" but were not.

Buckminster Fuller sought patents for his works to document in an enduring form what an individual could invent for the betterment of humanity. A primary resource for Fuller’s patents is the book Inventions, the Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller. Part two of this three-part essay features patents in Inventions that were not assigned to Fuller and patents not that were filed by Fuller. What did Fuller claim, and how do these claims compare to the public record? What did Fuller invent that has not been recognized by the general public?

Buckminster Fuller sought patents for his works to document in an enduring form what an individual could invent for the betterment of humanity. A primary resource for Fuller’s patents is the book Inventions, the Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller. Inventions serves as the framework for this three-part essay. Comparing the description of Fuller’s work found in that book with this essay will be most instructive.