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Bubble Houses

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Neff's Bubble Houses

Two men with a balloon and a gunite machine could turn a bare patch of soil into a bubble house in less than 48 hours. When the gunite dried, it was more than twice as strong as regular concrete. After Neff fine-tuned the air-form process, he went in search of a client who would hire him to build more bubble houses. And he found one, the federal government.

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