a. Patent Description

“Dymaxion” Map,

Cartography Patent

R. BUCKMINSTER

FULLER

(1944):

DYMAXION MAP (1946):*

US Patent No.:

2,393,676

Application:

February 25, 1944

Serial No.:

523,842

Patented:

January 29, 1946

*- Inventions,

The Patented Works of

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.