Designed to keep aircraft assembly lines running after World War II, plus solve the nation's peacetime housing needs, the all-metal, circular Dymaxion House, designed by inventor Buckminster Fuller, was put together like an airliner. Replacing wood and shingles, a duralumin skin was stretched over metal ribs that were buttressed by stainless steel cables suspended from a central mast. The wraparound windows were plexiglass.
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