Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0302
Abstract
Albert Farwell Bemis, 1870-1936, SB in civil engineering, 1893, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was a businessman and authority on housing. He was a member of the MIT Corporation and was on several Institute visiting committees. Provisions in his will established the Albert Farwell Bemis Charity Trust in 1936 to fund research on housing. In 1938 the trust gave funds to establish the Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation at MIT. The foundation became a separate division within MIT,...
Dates:
1926 - 1954
Cyril Stanley Smith papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0254
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Smith's career as a teacher at MIT is documented in correspondence and plans for the development of courses at MIT in the history of technology, a proposed Center for the Study of Technology, and course notes for his class Technology, Power, and Values (21.08J). Information about his course History of Materials (21.414J) includes course notes, glass slides, metal samples, photographs, tapes and drawings, and a bound set of student term papers (1963, 1965, 1967). Correspondence, drawings, and...
Dates:
1922 - 1992