In some ways, Fuller’s most significant artifact is the extensive personal archive he maintained throughout his life, The Chronofile.  Buckminster Fuller died in July 1983, leaving behind him the physical results of a thoroughly documented 56-year experiment, a testament to the effectiveness of individual initiative.

• During WWI RBF was the Naval Officer in command of the USS Inca from which the first ship-to-plane radio communication was completed.

• 1917 Bucky marries Anne Hewlett.

• 1918 Daughter Alexandra is born.

• 1922 Alexandra dies on her fourth birthday of complications from infantile paralysis and spinal meningitis.

• 1927 Building business fails bankrupting RBF, his friends and family who had invested in him.

• 1927 Second daughter Allegra is born.

• 1927-1929 Bucky spent two years in silence.

• 1932 Dymaxion house prototype is built. (Invented 1927)

• 1933 Dymaxion car is successfully demonstrated.

• 1936 RBF frequent guest performer of director Gilbert Seldes experimental broadcasts of CBS television from Grand Central Station office building studio to 100 experimental sets of CBS executives.

• 1938 Nine Chains to the Moon is published which identifies the concept of doing more with less as "Ephemeralization." Bucky travels much of U.S. with Christopher Morley.

• 1938 Bucky joins Fortune magazine as science and technology consultant.

• Dymaxion Sky-Ocean World Map is printed in 1943. (Copyright 1934)

• 1947 First Geodesic Dome prototype is built.

• 1949 Begins heavy lecture schedule at universities like: MIT, Chicago Institute of Design, etc.

• 1951 DNA helical structure discovered by Wilkins, Watson and Crick. Bucky points out similarities of DNA helix to his tetrahelix model.

• 1953 Ford Motor Company’s 50th anniversary, Dearborn Michigan; 93 foot diameter geodesic Rotunda Dome installed as first successful industrial acceptance of Bucky’s concept’s a quarter of a century after his 1927 prediction that the first realization would be in 1952.

• 1955 Scientists at UN Food and Agriculture Organization formally state that Malthus’s theory of scarcity is wrong and that there could be enough food for 100% of humanity but for political impasse. Bucky had stated this in 1938.

• 1956 U.S. International Trade Fairs adopt RBF’s geodesic dome as main pavilion. (First 100 ft. dome flown to Kabul Afghanistan in one DC-4, erected in 48 hours by Afghans with one U.S. Engineer)

•  1957 History's largest clear-span structural enclosure is built in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (384 feet in diameter)

• 1958 Geodesic Domes placed at North and South poles to house research facilities.

• 1958 Bucky makes first of his subsequent multi-annual circuits of Earth to fulfill his teaching appointments in South Africa, India, Japan, and England.

• 1958 Bucky’s Energetic/Synergetic Geometry discovered by nuclear physicists and molecular biologists to mathematically explain nature’s fundamental structuring at the atomic nucleus and virus levels. (See papers by John Grebe and Dr. Klug)

• 1959 200-foot-diameter Kaiser gold-anodized aluminum geodesic dome is USA’s International exhibit in Moscow, Russia. It was acclaimed by Kruschev, and after the fair, the Soviet Union purchased it at full cost to become a permanent structure in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park.

• 1959 Appointed University Professor (research) at Southern Illinois University and Bucky and Anne erect geodesic dome home in Carbondale.

• 1959 200-foot-diameter dome constructed for the Palais des Sports in Paris, France.

• 1959 Consults on the Astro Dome in Houston, Texas.

• 1962 Appointed by Harvard University as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry.

• 1962 Awarded U.S. Patent for Tensegrity.

• 1963 World Congress of Virologists announce comprehensive discovery of protein shells of viruses, which they acknowledge as having been anticipated by Bucky’s formula of frequency to the second power times 10 plus 2.

• 1963 Publication of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, No More Secondhand God, Ideas and Integrities and Education Automation.

• 1963 Subject of 5½-hour television broadcast on National Educational Television Network concentrated on Synergetics.

• 1964 Architect of USA pavilion for Montreal’s 1967 World’s Fair, Expo ’67.

• 1965 Given Creative Achievement Award from Brandeis University.

• 1966 Inaugurates computer game at Southern Illinois University called World Game focused on how to make the world work in such a manner that all of humanity can become physical and economic successes.

• 1967 Bucky and Anne celebrate 50th wedding anniversary.

•  1967 Bucky delivered 90 public lectures all over the world.

• 1967 RBF differentiates human brain and mind when speaking as Harvey Cushing Orator to annual congress of 2000 members of American Association of Neurosurgeons meeting in Chicago.

• 1968 Elected to National Academy of Design and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• 1975 Synergetics is published.

• 1979 Fly’s Eye Dwelling Machine prototype is completed.

• July 1983, Bucky dies after being told that Anne, who has suffered from a protracted illness, will not live out the day, later that same day Anne Fuller dies.

• 1997 Fullerenes discovered and named the State Molecule of Texas.

19. Commit whole-heartedly to the above and pay no attention to "earning a living" in humanity's established economic system, yet find that my family's and my needs are provided for by seemingly pure happenstance and always only in the nick of time.