Caleb Crain

Caleb Crain writes for various upmarket papers and rides a Swobo Dixon.

Letter

Domes, Domes, Domes

18 December 2008

To rebuke me for slighting Buckminster Fuller’s achievements, Paul Taylor points out that Fuller ‘developed the material and invented the machinery for manufacturing’ the wood-fibre bricks that he sold as a young man (Letters, 1 January). That’s true, but so is what I wrote, namely that Fuller’s father-in-law designed the bricks, that Fuller was in charge of selling them, and that he failed...

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