Bucky's Brushes

R. Buckminster Fuller was a man of uncommon vision, an inventor, a dreamer. He applied his genius for design to many things, each one intended to improve the lives of everyone. Early in his career he applied his talents towards a more practical task, sweeping the floor.

Fuller served in the Navy during World War I as a gunner firing and cleaning cannons. After he was discharged he founded a small company in New Hampshire selling mops and brooms he had designed. As the products caught on he hired a staff of salesmen to travel door-to-door selling the brushes, and the company quickly turned a profit and became a cultural icon. He used that company, the Buckminster Fuller Brush Company, to support himself and his family as he pursued his grander dreams.