Cooling Tower - History

History

A hyperboloid cooling tower was patented by Frederik van Iterson and Gerard Kuypers in 1918. The first hyperboloid cooling towers were built prior to 1930 in Liverpool, England to cool water used at an electrical power station that used coal.

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