1. Vladimir Shukhov is the inventor of the first cracking method.
17 Facts About Vladimir Shukhov
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Besides the innovations he brought to the oil industry and the construction of numerous bridges and buildings, Shukhov was the inventor of a new family of doubly curved structural forms.
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Vladimir Shukhov developed not only many varieties of light-weight hyperboloid towers and roof systems, but the mathematics for their analysis.
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Vladimir Shukhov is particularly reputed for his original designs of hyperboloid towers such as the Vladimir Shukhov Tower.
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Vladimir Shukhov was born in Russian family, in a town of Graivoron, Belgorod uezd, Kursk Governorate into a petty noble family.
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Vladimir Shukhov's father Grigory Ivanovich Shukhov was a minor government official, promoted for his efforts in the Crimean War.
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In 1864 Vladimir Shukhov entered Saint Petersburg gymnasium from which he graduated with distinction in 1871.
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Chebyshev offered him a job as a lecturer in mathematics at the Imperial Moscow Technical School, but Vladimir Shukhov decided to seek a job in the engineering industry instead.
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In May 1876 Vladimir Shukhov went to Philadelphia, to work on the Russian pavilion at the Centennial Exposition, the first official World's Fair in the United States, and to study the inner workings of the American construction and engineering industries.
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On his coming to Russia in 1877, Bari persuaded Vladimir Shukhov to give up his medical education and to assume the office of Chief Engineer in a new company specializing in innovative engineering.
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The photographic works of Vladimir Shukhov opened new trends ahead of their flourishing of fine art photography.
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Vladimir Shukhov made photos in various genres: reporting, city landscape, portrait, constructivism.
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About two thousand photos and negatives made by Vladimir Shukhov have survived until this day.
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Vladimir Shukhov died on 2 February 1939 in Moscow and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Vladimir Shukhov is often referred as the Russian Edison for the sheer quantity and quality of his pioneering works.
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Vladimir Shukhov was one of the first to develop practical calculations of stresses and deformations of beams, shells and membranes on elastic foundation.
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Vladimir Shukhov left a lasting legacy to the Constructivist architecture of early Soviet Russia.