Editing Dymaxion

{{Short description|Artificial term used by Fuller to attribute his inventions}}
{{about|a term coined by Buckminster Fuller|the map projection|Dymaxion map|other uses}}

[[Image:Dymaxion house.jpg|thumb|Dymaxion House as installed in [[Henry Ford Museum]]]]

'''Dymaxion''' is a term coined by architect and inventor [[Buckminster Fuller]] and associated with much of his work, prominently his [[Dymaxion house]] and [[Dymaxion car]]. A [[portmanteau]] of the words ''dynamic'', ''maximum'', and ''tension'',<ref>{{cite book
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rG__1rhIzE0C&dq=Dymaxion+dynamic&pg=PA132
|title= Buckminster Fuller's Universe
|page= 132
|first= Lloyd Steven
|last= Sieden
|year= 2000
|publisher= Basic Books
|isbn= 978-0-7382-0379-9
}}</ref> Dymaxion sums up the goal of his study, "maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input".<ref>{{cite book
|url= http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-02560.html
|title= R. Buckminster Fuller
|page= 17
|first= John
|last= McHale
|year= 1962
|publisher= Prentice-Hall
}}</ref>

== Description ==

A name was needed for the display of Fuller's first architectural model, later to be known as the [[Dymaxion house]], at the [[Marshall Field's]] department store in Chicago. To create the name, wordsmith Waldo Warren was hired by Marshall Field's<ref name="ANB">{{cite web
  | title = R. Buckminster Fuller 
  | publisher = American National Biography
  | author = Olive Hoogenboom 
  | date = February 2000
  | url = http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-02560.html}}</ref> and spent two days listening to Fuller, getting a feel for his idiosyncratic use of language&mdash;later playing with the syllables typical of Fuller's speech until he and Fuller agreed on the word ''Dymaxion''.

Fuller used the word for many of his inventions during the decades to follow, including the Dymaxion house, the [[Dymaxion deployment unit]], the [[Dymaxion car]], and the [[Dymaxion map|Dymaxion world map]]. Dymaxion also came to describe a [[polyphasic sleep]] schedule he followed, consisting of four 30-minute naps throughout the day. 

Fuller eventually renamed his elaborate journal&mdash;a highly specific, highly detailed self-documentation of his life&mdash;as the ''[[Dymaxion Chronofile]]''.

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