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- Scale Model of a Dymaxion House, 1946 -
- 1946
- Collections - Artifact
Scale Model of a Dymaxion House, 1946
- Salt and Pepper Shaker, 2009 - Companies produce a variety of materials for today's campers. These easy-to-carry, travel-sized products let Americans vacation in the great outdoors. Coleman Company Inc. is well-known for its camping lanterns and other camping equipment.
- 2009
- Collections - Artifact
Salt and Pepper Shaker, 2009
Companies produce a variety of materials for today's campers. These easy-to-carry, travel-sized products let Americans vacation in the great outdoors. Coleman Company Inc. is well-known for its camping lanterns and other camping equipment.
- Koronado Kourts Motel on Route 66, Joplin, Missouri, circa 1940 - Motorists traveling on U.S. Highway 66 around 1940 could stop at the Koronado Kourts in Joplin, Missouri. This foldout postcard depicts the clean and well laid out buildings of this tourist court. Owners confidently claimed that their establishment was "The Finest and Most Up-to-Date Tourist Kourts in the Entire Southwest on U.S. 66 Highway."
- circa 1940
- Collections - Artifact
Koronado Kourts Motel on Route 66, Joplin, Missouri, circa 1940
Motorists traveling on U.S. Highway 66 around 1940 could stop at the Koronado Kourts in Joplin, Missouri. This foldout postcard depicts the clean and well laid out buildings of this tourist court. Owners confidently claimed that their establishment was "The Finest and Most Up-to-Date Tourist Kourts in the Entire Southwest on U.S. 66 Highway."
- Dymaxion House - Buckminster Fuller was a multi-disciplinary designer. This house, his re-thinking of human shelter, was rooted in Fuller's understanding of industrial production -- particularly methods developed in the automobile industry and especially those advocated by Henry Ford for whom Fuller had immense admiration. More an engineering solution than a home, the structure was prototyped but never produced.
- 1946
- Collections - Artifact
Dymaxion House
Buckminster Fuller was a multi-disciplinary designer. This house, his re-thinking of human shelter, was rooted in Fuller's understanding of industrial production -- particularly methods developed in the automobile industry and especially those advocated by Henry Ford for whom Fuller had immense admiration. More an engineering solution than a home, the structure was prototyped but never produced.
- "Hop Rod" Pogo Stick, 1971-1975 - Gordon Spitzmesser of Elwood, Indiana, received a U.S. patent for a "combustible gas-powered pogo stick" on March 22, 1960. His son Edwin demonstrated it on national television in 1961. Spitzmesser never produced his invention but sold the patent to Chance Mfg. Co. of Wichita, Kansas, which manufactured the one-cylinder, two-cycle "Hop Rod" in the early 1970s.
- 1971-1975
- Collections - Artifact
"Hop Rod" Pogo Stick, 1971-1975
Gordon Spitzmesser of Elwood, Indiana, received a U.S. patent for a "combustible gas-powered pogo stick" on March 22, 1960. His son Edwin demonstrated it on national television in 1961. Spitzmesser never produced his invention but sold the patent to Chance Mfg. Co. of Wichita, Kansas, which manufactured the one-cylinder, two-cycle "Hop Rod" in the early 1970s.