Dymaxion Transport Vehicle

Submitted by carloz1 on Fri, 2005-12-16 16:23.

I met a gentleman the other day who was a friend of Buckminster Fuller. He has a notebook of blueprints by Buckminster Fuller of his Dymaxion Transport Vehicle. It's from the 4 D company in
Bridgeport, Conn. The index is hand typed with a couple of
hand written changes. The notebook is about 2'' thick and
is full of folded large blueprints of the vehicle.
The man that owns it is 85 and in bad health and is looking for
a home for this item. Would anyone here have any recommendations regarding this?

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Submitted by juri on Wed, 2006-01-04 07:20.

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Submitted by admin on Thu, 2005-12-22 13:38.

Carloz,

I think Mike Strickland is right. I would be willing to scan the document here at the Buckminster Fuller Institute. I could then also post it to our website or make it available for download as a PDF...
Let me know if you would like me to do that and then we can perhaps arrange how to ship it here...

Best,
- Jochen

--Site Administrator--
jh@bfi.org

Submitted by Mike Strickland on Wed, 2005-12-21 07:06.

They are restoring the dome Buckey & Anne lived in in Carbondale and using it as a museum, I think. I would like for someone to make digital copy of the documents, and make a link available on the BFI website. Then we all could share it. The prints could be skanned where they make blueprints. It would be intresting to model them in something like Solid Works, Autodesk Inventor, Mechanical Desktop, or even AutoCad. After copying it should be preserved somewhere, Perhaps the Smithsonian. I would be glad to assist in any way.

Mike

Submitted by tao51nyc on Mon, 2005-12-19 10:18.

You didn't offer to take it yourself?? I probably would have. LOL

But seriously, it belongs in a museum of some kind. That's a rare find.

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