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TOWER FOR RISE of a SALT SOLUTION in 1999.

TOWER FOR RISE of a SALT SOLUTION. 19th century.
From cities Solikamsk.

In the beginning tower was transported on Ustye-Borovsk salt - factory with Ostrovsky salt - factory .

The tower represents square in the plan a wooden construction 9х9 of meters and height 12 meters, which has a four-indirect roof with an orifice at centre. The square orifice at centre of a roof is made for an output of a bar of the pump and bracket. The strapping systems of walls and gradual thinning of a tower in height ensure stability of all construction. The pump mechanism was not saved, only pipe and trough for submission of a solution were saved in an interior.

In an antiquity the drilling of a slit proceeded from 3 till 5 years. In ground puted a pipe from pine log by a diameter of 62 centimeters and a salt solution lifted on this pipe with the help of of wooden buckets. With 17th of century the workers of steel to apply pumps, for what they begun to construct towers. The old blind horse caught on a circle in a location, contiguous to a tower, and actuated the pump, which exhausted from a slit a solution.

In a 1974 the tower is transported on territory of a museum. 

The architect G. Kantorovich the author of the project of restoration.


TOWER FOR RISE of a SALT SOLUTION in 1983. TOWER FOR RISE of a SALT SOLUTION 1990.
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