Getting Started with Online Research A Case Study Chapter 6 PART 1 Getting Started with Online Research A Case Study

Use a Google search for Buckminster and Fuller. How many hits do you get? How about Altavista? How many hits?

Discovering R. Buckminster Fuller Searching on Buckminster Fuller yields too many hits … Let’s check a biography to get specific terms: www.biography.com/search/ www.infoplease.com/people.html amillionlives.com

Biography.com biography of Buckminster Fuller Margaret Fuller? Dymaxion

Expanding the view Try the google search again including the word Dymaxion: Buckminster and Fuller and biography and Dymaxion Who is Margaret Fuller? (We can use the same biography site.)

Biography.com excerpt for Margaret Fuller, RBF’s great aunt Tradgedy

About.com biography of Buckminster Fuller Descriptive term

5 Foot 2? Let’s find some images http://images.google.com/images Look on page 19

Three pictures of R. Buckminster Fuller Google gives the ability to search for images

Other About.com links from bio of R. Buckminster

R. Buckminster Fuller Primary Sources: what does that mean? Try googling: Buckminster “Guinea Pig B” and follow the public tv station WNET

Excerpt from WNET’s Guinea Pig B page Search on Guinea Pig B hits a gold mine 1st hit: WNET

Start of Applewhite’s essay at the “Guinea Pig B” site

Start of Allegra Fuller Snyder’s essay at “Guinea Pig B” site

Excerpt from DeVarco’s essay at the WNET “Guinea Pig B” site

Start of Feldman’s essay at the “Guinea Pig B” site

Any videoclips? Return to the WNET site and cruise for some videoclips

Buckminster Fuller Institute chronology of RBF’s life Guinea Pig B search 2nd hit: Buckminster Fuller Institute

BFI site has animation of unfolding of Dymaxion Map Dymaxion Map—an unfolding of a projection of Earth onto an icosahedron. BFI site has animation of unfolding of Dymaxion Map

Geodesic Dome—from the U.S. Pavilion at the Montreal Expo ’67 What does “geodesic” mean Let’s check out some online dictionaries for geodesic and icosahedron

Defintion for Geodesic and Icosahedron Now let’s look at some secondary resources

Urner says there is a dispute over Fuller’s inventions Excerpt from Kirby Urner’s biography of R. Buckminster Fuller at www.grunch.net/synergetics/bio.html Urner says there is a dispute over Fuller’s inventions

Ken Snelson’s structure at the heart of controversy with RBF Snelson, an artist, claims to have invented the ideas Fuller calls tensegrity

Images of buckminster fullerene, C60 and C70 (also known as fullerenes or buckyballs).

The Nobel Prize site for discovery of buckminsterfullerene