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

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

3. Discovering R. Buckminster Fuller
Searching on Buckminster Fuller yields too many hits …
Let’s check a biography to get specific terms:
amillionlives.com

4. Biography.com biography of Buckminster Fuller
Margaret Fuller?
Dymaxion

5. 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.)

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

7. About.com biography of Buckminster Fuller
Descriptive term

8. 5 Foot 2? Let’s find some images http://images.google.com/images
Look on page 19

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

10. Other About.com links from bio of R. Buckminster

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. 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

20. 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

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

22. Urner says there is a dispute over Fuller’s inventions
Excerpt from Kirby Urner’s biography of R. Buckminster Fuller at
Urner says there is a dispute over Fuller’s inventions

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

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

25. The Nobel Prize site for discovery of buckminsterfullerene