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R. Buckminster Fuller: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Richard Buckminster Fuller • Buckminster Fuller
Born July 12, 1895 • Milton • Massachusetts
Died July 1, 1983 (aged 87) • Los Angeles • California
Role In Expo 67

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R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
geodesic dome
The U.S. exhibition dome at Expo 67 in Montreal; designed by Buckminster Fuller.
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Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
Alexander Girard
Alexander Girard
American architect and designer
Mary Golda Ross
Mary Golda Ross
Native American engineer
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Jack Kilby
American engineer
Noyce, Robert
Robert Noyce
American engineer
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
German-born American engineer
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Harold Rosen
American engineer
Strickland, William: Merchants' Exchange building
William Strickland
American architect
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor
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Jerome C. Hunsaker
American aeronautical engineer
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Leroy Randle Grumman
American engineer
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Peter Carl Goldmark
American engineer
Allen B. DuMont, 1953.
Allen B. DuMont
American engineer and inventor
Kettering, Charles F.
Charles F. Kettering
American engineer
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J. Presper Eckert
American engineer
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Herbert Thacker Herr
American engineer
James Douglas, oil painting by E.W. Grier, 19th century; in a private collection
James Douglas
American engineer
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Ernst Weber
American engineer

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