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	Dymaxion car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dymaxion car was a concept car from 1933, designed by American inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller.
		The word Dymaxion is a brand name that Fuller gave to several of his inventions, to emphasize that he considered them part of a more far-reaching project to improve humanity's living conditions.
		The car had a fuel efficiency of 30 miles per US gallon (7.8 L/100 km), which was unheard of in the United States at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dymaxion_car (451 words)

	Dymaxion house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor Buckminster Fuller to address several failures he perceived with extant homebuilding techniques.
		Criticisms of the Dymaxion Houses include its supposed "one-size-fits-all" cookie-cutter approach to housing which completely disregarded local site and architectural idiom, and its use of energy-intensive materials such as aluminum, rather than low-energy materials such as adobe or tile.
		The Dymaxion house was the first conscious effort at an autonomous building in the twentieth century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dymaxion_house (1017 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dymaxion car
		The car was a high efficiency vehicle with a then-unheard of fuel efficiency of 30 miles per US gallon (7.8 L/100 km) and it could move 11 passengers along at 120 miles per hour (193 km/h).
		Looked at historically, the Dymaxion Cars (which could seat up to 11 passengers) were prototypes of a "micro-bus" or "mini-bus" (terms often applied to the VW Transporter that was designed in the '40s by Ben Pon and which Volkswagen began to produce in 1950).
		The Dymaxion Car was thus one forerunner of the various minibuses and vans, produced by many companies, with which we have become familiar in recent decades.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dymaxion-car (849 words)

	Dymaxion car - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Thecar was a high efficiency vehicle with a then unheard of fuel efficiency of 30 miles per gallon and it could move 11 passengers alongat 120 miles per hour.
		The car was exceptionally large, 20 feet in length, but could do a U-turn in its ownradius.
		However, according to Art Kleinerin his book "The Age of Heretics", the real reason why Chrysler refused to producethe car was because the bankers threatened to recall their loans as they felt the car would destroy sales for both vehiclesalready in the distribution channels and second hand sales.
	www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /default.asp?t=Dymaxion_car (250 words)

	Dymaxion car
		The car was a high efficiency vehicle with a then-unheard of fuel efficiency of 30 miles per US gallon (7.8 L/100 km) and it could move 11 passengers along at 120 miles per hour (193 km/h).
		Looked at historically, the Dymaxion Cars (which could seat up to 11 passengers) were prototypes of a "mini-bus" (a term often applied to the VW Transporter that was designed in the '40s by Ben Pon and which Volkswagen began to produce in 1950.
		The Dymaxion Car was thus one forerunner of the various minibuses and vans,produced by many companies, with which we have become familiar in recent decades.
	www.kiwipedia.com /dymaxion-car.html (349 words)

	Dymaxion
		Fuller also claimed that fuel consumption of the Dymaxion car Number One was 30% less than a conventional car at 30mph and 50% less at 50mph.
		On Dymaxion Cars Number Two and Three an angled periscope was provided to help compensate for the lack of a rear window.
		The design of the Dymaxion cars was one of the biggest break throughs in automobile design since the car had originated some fifty years earlier.
	pages.zoom.co.uk /elvis/dymaxion.html (378 words)

	Dymaxion Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		This scheme was problematic, first, because of the adverse distribution of weight, and second because of the direct transfer of physical laws of fluid dynamics to a vehicle that is limited to streets, a type of motion in which no drift can be tolerated and reliable traction is the first requirement of safety.
		Three of these cars were built, all of them different and none were considered a "prototype" in the usual industrial way of thinking.
		The external appearance of the car was electrifying; its aesthetic is still strong today and the work as a whole had an enormous impact on the subsequent questioning of the norms of the "horseless carriage."
	users.design.ucla.edu /~djvmc/24/bucky/car.html (152 words)

	Dymaxion car
		The Dymaxion car was a concept car[?] built in 1933 and designed by Buckminster Fuller.
		The car was a high efficiency vehicle with a then unheard of fuel efficiency[?] of 30 miles per Gallon and it could move 11 passengers along at 120 miles per hour.
		The unusual steering ultimately lead to the invention's demise when an accident, likely caused by the driver of another vehicle, caused investors to abandon the project, blaming the accident on the vehicle's unusual steering.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/dy/Dymaxion_car.html (130 words)

	Dymaxion car : Information and resources about Dymaxion car : School Work Guru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The car was exceptionally large, 20 feet in length, but could do a U-turn in its own radius.
		This turning ability was due to the fact that it turned via a single rear wheel.
		This configuration unfortunately made the car some what counter intuitive to operate, especially in crosswind situations.
	www.schoolworkguru.org /encyclopedia/d/dy/dymaxion_car.html (217 words)

	Dymaxion Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The story of the Dymaxion Car offers endless food for thought for the designer.
		It is told in chapter 11 of Hatch's biography, and many drawings and photographs can be found in Dymaxion World.
		This invention may be contemplated in the context of road transport history.
	www.nous.org.uk /car.html (94 words)

	Coachbult.com - Buckminster Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		In the car taken for illustration, the center of gravity is about 20% aft of the front axle, some 75% of the total weight being on the two forward wheels, and this location of the gravity center is preferred.
		The third and final Dymaxion car, an extremely heavy emerald-green vehicle with a fin (intended to stop the tail from wandering in cross-winds) and a rear-view periscope built for conductor Leopold Stokowski, was exhibited outside the Crystal House at the fair in 1934 (pictured on the left)
		The car had rolled over, and the top had punched in, and he had been killed the Air Minister from France was sitting in the rear seat he didn't have a belt on, and I say this canvass top opened, and he just went out and landed on his feet.
	www.coachbuilt.com /des/f/fuller/fuller.htm (6772 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The car was essentially a mini-bus in each of its three trial incarnations, and its concept long predated the Volkswagen Type 2 mini-bus conceived in 1947 by Ben Pon.
		Fuller anticipated the car could travel on an open highway safely at up to about 100 miles per hour (160 km/h); however, due to some concept oversights, the prototypes proved to be unruly over the speed of 50 mph (80 km/h), and difficult to steer properly.
		One of Fuller's Dymaxion Houses is on display as a permanent exhibit at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan.
	www.uweb.ucsb.edu /~lspohr/Buckyinvent.html (815 words)

	Halfbakery: More aerodynamic car
		Cars have way too many competing demands on them in order to satisfy any single one of them perfectly.
		(the tire is slightly deformed by the car's weight, it gets somewhat flattened in the lower part, and each rotation of the wheel involves friction between the molecules of the tire because of that flattening).
		So, with a given car, the more rigid your wheels are, the less gas you need for a long trip.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/More_20aerodynamic_20car (542 words)

	The Car of the Future
		The car of the future was invented in 1933.
		The car was called the Dymaxion, and was designed and built by the great American designer, Buckminster Fuller.
		There was a collision, and the car was destroyed, killing Turner, and the future of the Dymaxion.
	home.nc.rr.com /oneearedduck/FutureCar.html (637 words)

	The Dymaxion. Richard Buckminster Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The corporation was set up to develop and manufacture three streamlined prototype cars that were based on his Dymaxion design.
		Fuller claimed that the Dymaxion of 1934 could accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in three seconds and had a fuel consumption of 30 miles per gallon.
		Unfortunately the prototype car was never manufactured as it proved to have serious design flaws.
	www.design-technology.org /page2.htm (90 words)

	IDSA -- About ID (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Designed by him and Starling Burgess, the car was driven by two front wheels, with a third steering wheel in the rear.
		Three cars were built, but a fatal accident in one in 1935 doomed the project.
		In 1942, Fuller patented a prototype of his circular Dymaxion House including his "Dymaxion Bathroom" in response to the aircraft industry's demand for low-cost temporary housing.
	new.idsa.org /webmodules/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=241&z=60 (638 words)

	Dymaxion - Qwika
		Dymaxion house The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor Buckminster Fuller...
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	www.qwika.com /find/Dymaxion (372 words)

	What is Dymaxion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Dymaxion is a coined word from the words "dynamic", "maximum", and "ion".
		It was conceived of by a friend of Buckminster Fuller, and he adopted it and 4-D ("fourth dimension") for many of his projects, including the Dymaxion 4-D House, the Dymaxion Car, the Dymaxion Deployment Unit (war-relief housing), the Dymaxion Dwelling Machine (An improvement on the Dymaxion 4-D House), etc.
		The dymaxion was also Fuller's name for the cuboctahedron or heptaparallelohedron, a quasi-regular uniform Archimedean polyhedron.
	dymaxion.org /dymaxion.shtml (217 words)

	Buckminster Fuller - MSN Encarta
		In 1932 Fuller founded the Dymaxion Corporation to produce a variety of his innovative designs.
		) His inexpensive, factory-assembled, and highly portable Dymaxion House was a doughnut-shaped structure hung from a central mast; his Dymaxion Airocean World Map is a flat cartographic projection that can be folded into a rough globe without the usual visible distortions of other world maps.
		His Dymaxion car was an omnidirectional, three-wheeled, fuel-efficient, versatile automobile, but it was never mass-produced.
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	Mitcarasran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The project is really many cars, represented in cardboard, wood and foam models expressing the ideas of a group of students.
		Various iterations of the car have been generated in Catia, the design software created by Dassault Systèmes of France which is now a mainstay of the auto industry.
		The most striking elements of the car are wheels that incorporate electric motors and the suspension inside their circumference.
	www.philpatton.com /mitcar.htm (1149 words)

	3d model of the dymaxion car
		dymaxion Car #2 is at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, NV however, they don't let you see the interior, claiming "it was never finished"
		The car always had a problem with shuddering from side to side, especially in wind, and he had been working on different ways to fix the problem.
		Sidney, Nebraska produced a few 3-wheeled cars which look a lot like the Dymaxion car, except that the single wheel is in front and the back is flared.
	www.washedashore.com /projects/dymax/index.html (1087 words)

	WNET: Bucky Fuller Dymaxion Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Though not much heavier that a VW Beetle, the Dymaxion was nearly 20 feet long.
		A fatal crash, wrongly blamed on the steering instead of the other car involved, was also fatal to investors, and the project failed.
		He and Bucky independently concluded that a safe, efficient, high-performance car could be economically built to weigh about a half-ton.
	www.thirteen.org /bucky/car.html (243 words)

	Dymaxion car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The unusual steering ultimately led to the invention's demise when an accident, likely caused by the driver of another vehicle, caused investors to abandon the project, blaming the accident on the vehicle's unusual steering.
		However according to Art Kleiner in his book "The age of heretics", Dymaxion said the real reason why Chrysler refused to produce the car was because the bankers threatened to recall their loans as they felt the car would destroy sales for both vehicles already in the distribution channels and second hand sales.
		If this were true, the short sighted move may have cost Chrysler a chance to out-compete Honda and Toyota who are currently eating into their market share.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/jeffrey-ullman.html (227 words)

	The Car Lounge Forums: The Automoblie flashback series - "I love the 1930's" - The year is 1933
		Air conditioning for cars developed in parallel, starting with autos that were designed for the rich and rapidly spreading to the masses.
		Car heating was a primitive matter of usually passing engine-fan-driven underhood air over the exhaust manifold, through a shroud, and ducting this hot air into the cabin through the firewall by opening a simple flap or door.
		The resulting car was the first 6 Cylinder Plymouth, and the car that pushed Chrysler in the number 2 spot for overall sales, pushing Ford into third place for the first time.
	forums.thecarlounge.net /zerothread?id=1967715 (4514 words)

	Bucky 4 Kids!!!
		2 CUTOUT Dymaxion Maps--Use one for a jigsaw.
		He designed a car, a bathroom, a rowboat, a new geometry (based on the real world, rather than abstract numbers), a new way of thinking and literally a new way of looking at the world--with the DYMAXION MAP.
		When he was born the car had just been invented and the airplane wasn't invented until he was 8 years old.
	www.solutioneers.net /solutioneering/bucky4kids.html (1664 words)

	Dymaxion car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The car was a high efficiency vehicle with then unheard of fuel efficiency of 30 miles per Gallon and could move 11 passengers along at 120 per hour.
		The car was exceptionally large 20 feet length but could do a U-turn in own radius.
		This configuration unfortunately made the somewhat counterintuitive to operate especially in crosswind The unusual steering ultimately lead to the demise when an accident likely caused by driver of another vehicle caused investors to the project blaming the accident on the unusual steering.
	www.freeglossary.com /Dymaxion_car (747 words)

	Dymaxion Car- Top Speed 120mph from 1933 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		It was about 6 feet tall (kinda like a big van), seated the driver and 10 passengers, weighed less than 1000 lbs., went 120 miles/hr on a 90 horsepower engine, and got between 30-50 miles to the gallon of gas.
		Fuller referred to it as the "Dymaxion Car", "Dymaxion Vehicle", and "Omni-Medium Transport" since it was ultimately intended to go by land, water, or sky.
		See the car and lot's more information [here].
	www.drifterslife.com /p79.cfm (115 words)

	mehorpa 3D Model of the Dymaxion Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		3d model of the dymaxion car History and pictures of the teardrop-shaped car designed by Buckminster Fuller.
		Directory 3D Model of the Dymaxion Car 3D Model of the Dymaxion Car.
		Directory AU and NZ > Automotive > Famous Cars 3D Model of the Dymaxion Car - History and pictures of the teardrop-shaped car...
	search.mehorpa.com /go/3D_Model_of_the_Dymaxion_Car (268 words)

	Bucky Fuller - Biographical Timeline
		As a response to this he developed the concept of Dymaxion, a contraction of the words 'dynamic', 'maximum' and 'ion' that to him summarized the need to develop resource-efficient, self-sustaining technologies.
		He developed the Dymaxion ideal by inventing a host of devices, from lightweight homes through streamlined cars to the geodesic dome that, thanks to Disney's EPCOT theme park, has since become a symbol of futurism.
		Based on his Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map, which was the size of a basketball court, it entailed trying to distribute world resources in a way that ensured that everyone would 'win'.
	www.miqel.com /fuller_design_science/buckminster-fuller-dome-bio.html (1226 words)

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