a. Patent Description
“Dymaxion” Map,
Cartography Patent
R. BUCKMINSTER
FULLER
(1944):
DYMAXION MAP (1946):*
US Patent No.:
US Patent No.:
Application:
Application:
February 25, 1944
February 25, 1944
Serial No.:
Serial No.:
523,842
523,842
Patented:
Patented:
January 29, 1946
January 29, 1946
*- Inventions,
*- Inventions,
The Patented Works of
The Patented Works of
R. Buckminster Fuller, R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller, R. Buckminster Fuller
Plan of the patent of the Dymaxion projection. The six squares and eight spherical triangles that result from the cuboctahedron’s outward projection are divided into a regular grid of squares and equilateral triangles.
Shoji Sadao, Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for a New Millennium, T. K. Zung, ed.