Hyperboloid structure
Estructura hiperboloide
- Date
- 1896 · confidence high
- Place
- Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Credited to
- Vladimir Shukhov
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A steel lattice tower shaped as a hyperboloid of one sheet, built by engineer Vladimir Shukhov for the 1896 All-Russia Exhibition, the world's first structure of this kind.
What it led to
- Hyperboloid water and radio towers worldwide
- Hyperboloid-shaped power-plant cooling towers
- Material savings in large lattice structures
- Influence on 20th-century steel-lattice architecture