In fall 1948, Snelson returned home to Oregon, where he enrolled in physics classes and created his first model based on what Fuller called "tensegrity," a fusion of the words "tension" and ...

In 1975 Buckminster Fuller first defined the term tensegrity, a portmanteau of "tensional integrity." It refers to structural systems that derive their stability from various elements acting ...

It’s a term that was coined by the architect Buckminster Fuller in the early 1960s–and it has a fascinating history. What Is Tensegrity, and Who Discovered It?

Tensegrity—a portmanteau of “tensional integrity”—is a structural principle that, according to Buckminster Fuller, who coined the term, calls for “continuous tension members and ...

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983). The Triad: Twelve Degrees of Freedom; Six Part Push/Pull Tensegrity; and Geodesic Tensegrity Sphere, 90 Strut, Edition 5 of 10, 1980. Stainless steel rods and coated ...

I wanted to explore Tensegrity as an engineering concept. Quite a few other YouTube channels have made 'impossible tables' which in reality use Tensegrity - the combination of rigid members, and ...

The inspiration comes from an unlikely source: architecture. In the 1960s, architect and engineer Buckminster Fuller introduced a theory called tensegrity, short for “tensional integrity.” ...

Buckminster Fuller, an American architect, came up with the term and explained the ideas behind it in interviews. Whether Fuller would have expected his design to one day make its way to Mars ...

Bucky models one of his non-symmetrical tension-integrity–tensegrity!–structures. For many, Fuller’s name is synonymous with the geodesic dome, for which he held the US patent.

The concept of tensegrity is used to build structures in science, engineering, arts and architecture. “Tensegrity” was coined by Buckminster Fuller in the 1960s; it’s a combination of the terms ...