Who was the man who patented the geodesic dome (a structure like the one at EPCOT center in Orlando Florida?
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The first dome that could be called "geodesic" in every respect was designed just after WWI by Walter Bauersfeld,[1] chief engineer of the Carl Zeiss optical company, for a planetarium to house his new planetarium projector. The dome was patented, constructed by the firm of Dykerhoff and Wydmann on the roof of the Zeiss plant in Jena, Germany, and opened to the public in 1922. Some thirty years later R. Buckminster Fuller apparently came up with the idea independently and named the dome "geodesic" from field experiments with Kenneth Snelson and others at Black Mountain College in the late 1940's. Although Fuller cannot be said to be the inventor, he exploited and developed the idea, receiving a U.S. patent.
Buckminster Fuller
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