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Two Men Puzzle #181 - R. Buckminster Fuller / Walter Beech / Dymaxion Globe
« on: March 15, 2012, 05:17:06 AM »
The gentlemen seated in the front of this photo have ties to well-known automobiles, but for very different reasons. Please identify the two seated gentlemen, an automobile with which each is associated, and the non-automotive object at which they are gazing.
 
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Re: Two Men and a ? Puzzle #181
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2012, 04:36:10 AM »
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Re: Two Men and a ? Puzzle #181
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2012, 04:06:55 AM »
Two levels of indifference. Let's see if a Pro can solve it.
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Re: Two Men and a ? Puzzle #181
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2012, 04:12:05 AM »
Something related to the police?
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Re: Two Men and a ? Puzzle #181
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2012, 04:28:34 AM »
R. Buckminster Fuller shows his Dymaxion Globe to Walter Beech and others at the Beech Aircraft Company offices in Wichita. Fuller teamed with the company to produce his Dymaxion Dwelling Machine.

Buckminster Fuller of course related to the Dymaxion car, Walter Beech to the Beechcraft Plainsman.
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Re: Two Men and a ? Puzzle #181
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2012, 04:43:14 AM »
There you have it...

I had typed up an answer to PJ's question, but you interceded before I was done. The Dymaxion Globe was a forrunner of the Geodesic structures Fuller would patent (but didn't invent) a couple of years after this picture was taken.
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Re: Two Men and a ? Puzzle #181
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2012, 04:48:08 AM »
It would have been much harder without the "Wichita is the center of the United States" map in the background  ;)
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Re: Two Men and a ? Puzzle #181
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2012, 04:50:21 AM »
And my overuse of certain puzzle sources, I suspect.  :D
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