Climate control

By Robert Elwall 2001-03-26T00:00:00

Murphy & Mackay's Climatron in St Louis – the size of the Pantheon in Rome – used Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome to enclose the world's first air-conditioned greenhouse.

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