Vladimir Shukhov
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (Russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Шу́хов; 28 August (16 August 1853 – 2 February 1939) was a Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first hyperboloid structures, diagrid shell structures, tensile structures, gridshell structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges.
Beside 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. These forms, based on non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry, are known today as hyperboloids of revolution. Shukhov developed not only many varieties of light-weight hyperboloid towers and roof systems, but also the mathematics for their analysis. Shukhov is particularly reputed for his original designs of hyperboloid towers such as the Shukhov Tower.
The above information is condensed from the introduction to the Wikipedia entry, and much more information may be found there.
Examples of his structures built for the 1893 Nijni-Novgorod (Nizhny Novgorod) Exhibition were illustrated in 'The Engineer' in 1893[1]
A number of Shukhov's remarkable towers have survived, including the Shukhov Tower in Moscow and the 128 metre high Shukhov tansmission tower on the Oka River.
Shukhov worked closely with Alexander Bary For more information, see [here[2]