Adziogol Lighthouse

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The Adschigol Lighthouse (Ukrainian Аджигольський маяк / Adschyholskyj majak; Russian Аджигольский маяк / Adschigolskyj majak ) is a 64 meter high lighthouse in Hyperboloidkonstruktion in the delta of the Dnieper estuary in the Black Sea, located in front of the village Rybaltsche about 30 km west-south west of Kherson, which was built in 1911 by the Russian engineer, inventor and polymath Vladimir Shukhov.

Description

The Adschigol Lighthouse is a hyperboloid of revolution dar. The diameter of the bottom of the foundation is 18 m, the upper ring 7 m. The height of the tower scaffold from the foundation to the top ring is 59 m. On the surface of the top ring is an octagonal tin hut for the lighthouse keeper with 4 m high. The external width or the diameter of the circle described is 6.5 m. The structure for the Lantern House is hexagonal, total height with pyramid roof 7 m, outer width as the diameter of the circle described, 4,5 m. The scaffolding tower consists of 60 angle iron that are overlapping each other and aligned in straight lines forming a hyperboloid. To establish the necessary connection of the angle iron of the Hyperboloidkonstruktion, attached thereto by the scaffolding inside several horizontal rings at 2 m distance from each other. At the crossing points, the angle iron are riveted, and the lattice framework thus formed of the tower represents a connected and rigid system in the middle of the tower, an iron pipe with diameter of 2 m is over the full height fitted, in which there is a spiral staircase made ​​of iron.

The design principle of the hyperboloid of revolution was resumed among other things for the construction of the Canton Tower, the fourth tallest building in the world, and the Kobe Port Tower.