The word Dymaxion is a brand name that Buckminster Fuller used for several of his inventions. It is an abbreviation of "dynamic maximum tension" , however it has also been reported that the name is a combination of the words dynamic, maximum, and ion, per the National Automobile Museum. Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983)[1] was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. ...

The term was coined for Fuller approximately in 1928 by Waldo Warren, an advertising expert who had previously become known by inventing the word "radio" for what people used to call "the wireless" at the time. A brand name was needed for the display of Fuller's first architectural model, later to be known as the Dymaxion House. Dymaxion House as installed in Henry Ford Museum The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor Buckminster Fuller to address several failures he perceived with extant homebuilding techniques. ...

In order to come up with a word, Warren spent two days listening to Fuller and trying to get a feel for the type of language he used. He then played randomly with syllables from typical Fuller words, until the word "Dymaxion" was born.

Fuller was very excited about the word and used it for many of his inventions in the decades to follow, including the Dymaxion House, the Dymaxion Car, and the Dymaxion World Map. He also renamed his elaborate journal, in which he sought to document his life as an experiment with the greatest possible detail, as the Dymaxion Chronofile. Dymaxion House as installed in Henry Ford Museum The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor Buckminster Fuller to address several failures he perceived with extant homebuilding techniques. ... Dymaxion 3 The Dymaxion car was a concept car built in 1933 and designed by Buckminster Fuller. ... Unfolded Dymaxion map with nearly-contiguous land masses. ... The Dymaxion Chronofile is Buckminster Fullers attempt to document his life as fully as possible; essentially a very large scrapbook in which he documented his life every 15 minutes from 1915 to 1983. ...

References

• Leigh White, Buck Fuller and the Dymaxion World, in: The Saturday Evening Post, 14 October 1944, cited in: Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein (eds.), Your Private Sky, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden/Switzerland, 1999, page 132. ISBN 3-907044-88-6