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“Whenever I draw a circle I immediately want to step out of it.” Buckminster Fuller stated this and clearly defined it through out the course of his life. He was a philosopher, thinker, visionary, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet, cosmologist and more. He was said to be one of the greatest living geniuses. Albert Einstein thought he was one of the smartest individuals he had ever met. Although he saw himself as a average human being, a random element on a world full of elements. “I am not a thing, a noun. I seem to be a verb” Buckminster fuller was more then any of these things, he was a inventor. He invented three major things in the course of his life: The dymaxion car, dymaxion house and the geodesic dome. Buckminster Fuller had a very tough life. When he was growing up he was cross eyed, unpopular and bullied at school. He was different in every respect. When the teacher gave the class tooth picks and told them to make shapes he was the only child in the whole class to form a triangle. The teacher called all the other teachers in to examine this. Fuller was surprised that they hadn’t figured this out themselves. It seemed like he did not fit anywhere. In classes, although he received straight A’s he disp