The Russian engineer and architect
Vladimir Shukhov was the first in the world to invent and use in construction hyperboloid towers. For the 1896 All-Russia industrial and art exhibition in Nizhniy Novgorod Shukhov built the steel lattice 37-meter tower, which became
the first hyperboloid structure in the world. The astonishing hyperboloid lattice structure caused delight of the European specialists ("The Nijni-Novgorod exhibition: Water tower, room under construction, springing of 91 feet span", "The Engineer" magazine, 1897, № 19.3. - P.292-294).
After the exhibition had closed, the openwork tower of rare beauty was bought by the well-known Maecenas of that time Yury Nechaev-Maltsov and placed in his
estate Polibino, Lipetsk Oblast, where it has preserved until now under the state protection. In the subsequent years, V.G.Shukhov developed numerous structures of various lattice steel hyperboloids and used them in hundreds water towers, sea lighthouses, masts of warships and supports for power transmission lines. The hyperboloid structures appeared in Spain (Gaudi) and USA (battleship masts) only 10 years after the Shukhov's invention.
The
World's First Hyperboloid structure by
Vladimir Shukhov,
All-Russian Exposition, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia,
1896!
In
Polibino, Lipetsk Oblast, 2008:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7683790
http://www.panoramio.com/user/1373672
Shukhov Tower (1922) in Moscow is
hyperboloid tower.
http://www.mensvogue.com/images/desi...habol-02-2.jpg
Adziogol Lighthouse,
1910!
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildi...ighthouse.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid_structure
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