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Eighty-five years ago, on Oct. 18, 1933, R. Buckminster Fuller filed for a patent for his most notorious (and really, his only) automotive invention: the Dymaxion Car. U.S. patent No. 2,101,057 was ...

Did you know that Bridgeport was once the home of “the car of the future?” It was the Tesla of its era, but only three were ever built. Jim Cameron This mystery vehicle? The Dymaxion Car. The designer ...

Buckminster Fuller, born on this day in 1895, designed or imagined a lot of things: geodesic domes, synergetics and theoretical worlds like Spaceship Earth and Dymaxion World. Some of his ideas stood ...

Architect Norman Foster can add car designer to his résumé. Foster’s zeppelin-shaped design is an updated version of the 1933 Dymaxion, an 11-seat vehicle originally designed and built by ...

One of humanity’s longest-surviving dreams has always been that of conquering land, water and air, preferably at the same time, with just one vehicle. To this day, this dream has never been fully ...

From the June 15, 2008 New York Times: Buckminster Fuller’s 1933 Dymaxion, a streamlined pod on three wheels, is one of the lovable oddballs in automotive history. Three were built, fawned over by the ...

Buckminster Fuller, an architect, engineer and philosopher, produces the first of three three-wheeled, multidirectional Dymaxion cars in Bridgeport, Conn., on July 12, 1933 -- his 38th birthday.

Resembling a whale out of water, here you see the Dymaxion, a three-wheeled vehicle being manufactured at Bridgeport, Conn., as “the car of the future.” The invention of Buckminster Fuller, the ...