Starling Burgess Poet: From Starling Burgess’ mother, Caroline Louisa “Kitty” Sullivant, an eminent natural scientist, he received a love of literature and poetry, which he regarded as the foundation for all accomplishment. The Eternal Laughter And Other Poems. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2013.
The Dymaxion car was a concept car, the basic layout was designed by U.S. inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller in 1933. The word Dymaxion is a brand name that Fuller gave to several of his inventions, to emphasize that he considered them part of a more general project to improve humanity’s living conditions. The car …
Burgess was one of the great, 20th century geniuses of American design, with an extraordinary range of fields, as a inventor, poet, aviation pioneer, naval architect, automotive engineer, and America’s Cup yacht designer. Born into a Boston family of wealth and privilege on Christmas Day, 1878, the son of yacht designer Edward Burgess and Caroline …
One of the most important Scandinavian yacht designers of the 20th century. Born in Denmark and educated as an apprentice shipwright at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in the 1920s. In those years the yard built large sailing and motoryachts. He then later worked as apprentice at Abeking & Rasmussen in Bremen-Lemwerder under the supervision of Henry …
On the day before April Fools Day 2014, the magazine’s publisher will officially retire to pursue his passion “to go boating everyday; back to building some boats.” Carl a lifelong boater, who grew up in California, moved to Maine in 1964 to attend Bowdoin College. After leaving school to pursue a career in yacht design, …
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