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• Tensegritoy
  ...truts, and the notches served to guide the tendons and allow the brass tip to remain in place. ==History of Tensegritoy==
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• Sils, Juris
  ...n]] in the discovery of tensegrity. He wrote "Karlis Johansons on the road to tensegrity in 1921" and publishes videos demonstrating the structures that [[Category:Portal To History]]
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• Howard, T. C
  Read here about an architect and designer who was a critical contributor to early work on tensegrity. [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• Levin, Stephen M
  ...dical description of biomechanical forces in biological life, from viruses to humans. ...different. Levin sought a model that embraced these qualities, in contrast to the lever-dominated Newtonian approach, and found it in tensegrity studies.
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• 4D Geometry
  ...the visible aspects of structure, which convention forced most architects to adopt variations of the cube. ...finitive article (see reference [1]) with some occasional references added to tensegrity. Henderson's book, "The Fourth Dimension" is highly recommended
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• Your Private Sky Books
  ...im into the larger cultural context as well as explaining his contribution to that context. For instance, the graphic style of the pages of Fuller’s jo ...etitor and did not acquire Stockade. Fuller's loss of his position was due to his father-in-law's withdrawal from the company, errors Fuller made, and ot
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• Main Page
  ...</nowiki>), University of Salerno, Italy: CAD model of a tensegrity column to be 3D printed through Electron Beam Melting (EBM) in the Ti6Al4V titanium a Click this page to read about it: [[Project_2021]]
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• 3 Struts
  A 3-strut tensegrity by Fuller, forming a triangle. May have been used to illustrate that even a "polygon" triangle is an ultra-flat tetrahedron. ...300 speaker is a 3 strut tensegrity, with the addition of a circular plate to mount the speaker.
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• Textiles as Tension Technology
  ...and passing them rhythmically over and under one another, it was possible to produce material useful for all sorts of things... Weaving and tensegrity s ...h, wool, cotton and linen "tension-harnessing technologies", and you begin to grasp their importance. The truest high technologies are tension structures
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• 3 struts
  A 3-strut tensegrity by Fuller, forming a triangle. May have been used to illustrate that even a "polygon" triangle is an ultra-flat tetrahedron. The 3 strut construction may be repeatedly applied to construct larger tensegrity structures.
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• Kenner, Hugh
  ...n the humanities and the sciences: his made significant contributions both to modernist literature theory and engineering. His books include an appreciat Of interest to tensegrity researchers is Kenner's book on geodesic math.
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• Becoming Bucky Fuller by Lorance
  ...ming Bucky Fuller" by [[Lorance, Loretta|Loretta Lorance]], the definitive history of Buckminster Fuller's earliest research. The article summarizes the book, ...uller the public figure had gone from being an entrepreneur with a product to being a visionary with an idea. He had become Bucky Fuller.
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• Pneumatics
  ...and use of pressurized gas in structures and manufactured devices, usually to affect mechanical motion. ...pneumatic tires. Pneumatics are also used in dynamic tensegrity structures to extend and collapse adjustable length struts.
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• Arithmetization
  ...f the real world in terms of numbers. While the overall trend is as old as history itself, the systematic replacement of geometric and topological reasoning w ...ructions in the 20th century is part of a small but significant trend back to geometrical ways of thinking.
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• Tree
  Read here about tensegrity concepts as they relate to the tree. A tree is considered here to be any plant with the general form of an elongated stem, or trunk, which su
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• Wire Roap
  ...echanical failure. While flaws in chain links or solid steel bars can lead to catastrophic failure, flaws in the wires making up a steel cable are less c ...ped bolt with a special insert, specifically designed to clamp a wire rope to itself when forming a loop end for temporary cables.
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• Synergetics
  ...ral, how tensegrity forms a subset of Synergetics' investigations, and how to dismbiguate Fuller's use of the term from other later uses. To read about the two volume work names Synergetics, see [[Fuller's Two Volume
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• Fuller, Margaret
  ...uckminster Fuller, as he first embarked on his course of research that led to his development of tensegrity. A short biography and timeline is presented to provide context for the article. For an in depth treatment see the 2013 Pul
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• Fuller, Richard Buckminster
  ...utions that reflected his commitment to the potential of innovative design to create technology that does "more with less" and thereby improves human liv Fuller inspired [[Snelson, Kenneth|Snelson]] to discover tensegrity, worked to perfect its basic forms, and promoted it as a universal model of structure.
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• Strut, Materials
  ...andards exist for specific industry application tubing, tube is often made to custom sizes and a broader range of diameters and tolerances. Many industri ...xisting older pipe, increasing the inner diameter beyond half an inch. The history of copper pipe is similar. In the 1930s, the pipe was designated by its int
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