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"A groundbreaking advance on the way to efficient structures in steel construction was the principle of using tetrahedra as a basic module instead of rectangular geometries. The inventor is considered to be the all-round genius Alexander Graham Bell, who became famous for the invention of the telephone and who built kites that were big enough to lift people into the air. Another engineering genius was Vladimir Grgorevic Suchov, whose genius can definitely be compared to Gustav Eiffel. In 1919 he designed towers up to 350 m high on the principle of hyperbolic paraboloids. The lightness of his constructions is seldom achieved even today, in Moscow there is a television tower with a height of 160 m. His tent constructions with suspended steel grids can be seen as the forerunners of the Olympic roof in Munich or the new Center Pompidou Metz. In , Suchov realized the first double-curved lattice shells on the floor plan of rectangular halls as early as the 19th century. Most of the structures still in existence are massively endangered by corrosion and destruction; current rescue operations are trying to preserve this legacy."
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Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures, such as towers, where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high above the ground. Hyperboloid geometry is often used for decorative effect as well as structural economy. The first hyperboloid structures were built by Russian engineer

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