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The document details Buckminster Fuller being awarded an honorary degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on June 11, 1955. This includes a citation describing Buckminster Fuller's achievements as an author, inventor, and architect. The document also includes a list other individuals that received honorary degrees alongside Buckminster Fuller.
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A list of Buckminster Fuller's university, college, and school invitation appointments as visiting lecturer, critic, or as research seminar director between November 1927 and January 1960.
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An inventory of reprints and overruns of published items concerning R. Buckminster Fuller, dymaxion, geodesic structures, synergetic geometry, Fuller Research Foundation.
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An inventory of printed or mimeographed items written between 1927 to 1956 by R. Buckminster Fuller or his associates. The items in the inventory list concern "his philosophy of comprehensive, anticipatory design-science and the technical strategy of its economic realization and socio-industrial assimilation.
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The document details a full list of items used for various exhibits on Buckminster Fuller. The list includes the order of exhibit, photograph code numbers, dates, and captions.
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The article written by Buckminster Fuller titled, "Comprehensive Designing," describes his proposed scientific and socio-economic revolution accomplished by shifting from "weaponry to livingry" through the application of comprehensive anticipatory design science.
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This letter from George V. Allen, the director of the United States Information Agency, written to Buckminster Fuller discusses plans on an American national exhibition to be held in Sokolniki Park, Moscow.
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The letter details Buckminster Fuller's creative and professional career including his various theoretical concepts. Discussions on his "teleologic preoccupation" and teleologic design process are accounted in this letter.
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A letter regarding sales promotion data, Buckminster Fuller's patents and discussion of estimates, installation rates, and costs for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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The letter, written by Buckminster Fuller's assistant, John Dixon, to Robert E. Cummings, discusses the supposed contract details for Project Lamp Light and the financial arrangements for the consultation.
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The letter details clarification and follow up to a potential researcher that had been in conversation with Buckminster Fuller regarding assistance of projects.
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This letter details plans on a proposed exhibit at the Walker Art Center featuring Buckminster Fuller's work.
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Letter regarding the 1954 Yearbook publication and its mention of the dome airlifts used by the U.S. Marine Corps. The letter details authorship requests for Fuller's dome airlift designs.
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The letter, written to the Patent Counsel to Geodesics, Inc. and Synergetics, Inc., details Buckminster Fuller's Octet Truss, also known as the Octahedron-Tetrahedron Truss.
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The letter details plans for the installation of a geodesic dome and includes references to various resources documenting past geodesic dome design strategies and planning.
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The letter details potential licensing agreements with Air Force officials to use Dymaxion cartographic transformation patent.
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The two letters between the Aviation Division of the Marine Corps and Martin Wagner detail a possible patent infringement on the building of a spherical shelter for the Marine Corps.
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A cablegram from Afghanistan by John Dixon to James Fitzgibbon, Geodesic, Inc. Reporting on the opening of a geodesic dome in Afghanistan, the erection of the U.S. Pavillion, and its international acclaim at the 1956 Jeshyn Fair.
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A template letter detailing Buckminster Fuller accepting an invitation to a project collaboration with an architecture school at a university.
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A check list of the Universal Design Requirements of a Scientific Dwelling Facility. Content includes what Buckminster Fuller calls primitive factors of energetic nature. This is broadly classified into four parts.
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The document details the Trial Balance Inventory, a comprehensive picture of the standards of living.
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The document details the Grand Rapids Geodesic dwelling and the ecological design process by Buckminster Full and his architectural associate, James W. Fitzgibbon.
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The document details the establishment and history of the Fuller Research Foundation. Also includes a list of various topics for exploration and research.
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Buckminster details various reflections on fundamental economies, synergeticability, and politics. The document later includes mentions of his patent and corporate counsel and a follow-up regarding licensing issues.
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Two newspaper clippings have been scanned together. One published January 22, 1959 titled "Geodesic Dome Inventor Fuller to Give Marathon Lecture Here." The other clipping from February 5, 1959 titled "Fuller's Marathon Lecture Delves Into Future."