Geodesic dome Zeiss plant in Jena, Germany. A larger dome, called "The Wonder of Jena", opened to the public in July 1926. Some 20 years later, R. Buckminster Fuller named the dome "geodesic" from field experiments with artist Kenneth Snelson at Black Mountain College in 1948 and 1949. Although Fuller was not the original inventor, he is credited with the U.S. popularization of the idea for which he received U.S. patent 2,682,235 29 June 1954. The geodesic dome appealed to Fuller because it was extremely strong for its weight, its "omnitriangulated" surface provided an inherently stable structure, and because a sphere encloses
Portuguese World Exhibition of display history, ethnography and the colonial world. A monument to the discoveries of Portugal "Padrão dos Descobrimentos" was designed by Pardal Monteiro and Cottinelli Telmo and erected in the Praça do Império (it was dismantled in 1943). A modernist restaurant and beer hall was designed by António Lino with guidance from Cottinelli Telmo. In 2014 it was remodelled to become a nightclub and bar. The pavilion of popular life was designed by Veloso Reis and João Simões and after the exhibition was refurbished and opened as Lisbon's Museum of Popular Art in 1948. The Brazil pavilion, named "Independent Brazilian