The Leaning Tower Of Pisa: Italy’s Legendary Architectural Mistake | Massive Engineering Mistakes
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- Did you know that The Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy was actually the result of a human mistake? Just one minor miscalculation made in the 11th century left us with an amazing 14,500-tonne leaning tower. Find out how this mishap came about here.
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0:08 he has sunglasses but decided to take it off and looked directly at the sun
Haha
Lmao I didn't notice that
He didn’t look at the sun he looked at the tower
David Garcia i know
Javier Arroyo yes I know but he’s saying he’s looking at the sun but he was actually looking at the tower. I know that he needed his glasses, Don’t be so concerned
Engineer: “are you going to fall over?”
Leaning tower of Pisa: “no, no I don’t think I will”
peculiar boast but alas Don't think 🤣🤣
Its pretty much how it is
2089: yep, it fell.
Why don’t they remove more sand so that the
Tower returns to its upright position?
@@juniorsir9521 Italy would lose one of it’s tourist attractions. But I guess the tower IS sinking AND leaning…
Just put a bottle cap under it it will be okay
why didnt this have any likes LMAO
or 4 bottle caps
how?
HAHAHAAHAHAA
I don't get it
Love how they could've just made it straight, but decided to just make it still lean a bit.
To make their prediction of the tower falling one day come to pass. Anyway it wouldn't a tourist site if the fault is totally corrected. Once it still leans, it something for us all to learn about and appreciate.
it would never be perfectly straight because when the lean started during construction, the builders compensated by making the walls on the leaning side taller to level it out a bit, it's actually pretty visually noticeable . If it were straightened at the base, it would be curved a bit in the opposite direction of the lean.
@@smenard8388 It would still be a tourist destination. The tower's beautiful. And the churches are also beautiful.
Andre Newcomb I seriously doubt it would stay as popular as it is now vs being completely leveled. How many other famous bell towers can be named without having to do a web search?
The lean brings in tourists.
This tower is so famous that we always used in sample problems in trigonometry
I’m literally doing trig homework with the tower of Pisa problem while reading this
Lmao my math tutor showed my class an exam question that’s worth 4m with like 4 out of 7 sentences talking about the history of the tower(which is obv irrelevant but cool to know 😎) and the question asks u to find the angle of the shadow or smth. Actually I haven’t learn trigonometry but she just showed us for fun :)
😂😂
I did trigonometry problems of the tower in 1999✋✋✋
“We don’t make mistakes, we make happy accidents “ That lean has kept a million people year visiting Pisa. That’s a gansta lean.
Just fold a piece of paper and put it under it
some glue and you're good to go
That's what you do for a wobbly table.
@@Marsalien100 well done, you got the joke...
i feel like this was inspired from the top comment XD
35 years ago, me and my girlfriend visited there. At the top of the tower , she said “ it’s scary, this is almost toppling.” I didn’t say anything, because I was also scared. After coming back to Japan, we broke up and never seen each other again. If I could see her again , I would say to her “ We didn’t have to be scared , it’s still standing .”
What impression did Italy and Italians make on you and your ex girlfriend?
@@nni9310
I was impressed with the beauty of the town and she was impressed with the kindness of the people.
Even after breaking up with her , I will cherish our visit there in memory as long as I live.
@@kenkishi8042 thank you for your response.
@@kenkishi8042 I'm sorry for what happened between you and your girlfriend
Woah
Isn't this an engineering mistake and not an architectural mistake?
Yeah I think so . Engineering deals with that
But what if it was only an architect without an engineer?
Engineers have commonly been around for about 200-300 years, the tower was completed in 1372
@@Rainolx still an engeneering mistake, not an architectural mistake
@@teles448 Geotechnical engineering was not understood back in those days. It's still having us scratching our heads from time to time. A similar incident occurred much more recently in South Padre Island, Texas. Unfortunately, that tower was imploded and the project was scrapped.
Engineering is an integral facet of architectural design. Arches themselves have to do with the properties particularly of concrete and stone in compression and stresses, the form itself and compression distribution forcing the entire underside of the arch closer together actually makes the structure stronger. So yes... architectural failure.
It hasn't fallen because so many people have held it up in their photos.
Good one !😂
Belter
Be the Force with him.
Shows how Humble the tower is, leaning forward with due respect
Maybe it’s leaning backwards due to back pain
It's Praising The Lord of Heaven Jesus Christ!
Plot twist:
Tower: *leans south*
Europeans: *WE GO TO AFRICA*
ITS LEANING TOWARDS THE HOLYLAND
@@SacsachCCABP ye lets colonize africa again
*its never collapsed*
Earthquake: hold my beer
B M-Y did you get picked on in school?
@@JuuKit Are you the type that goes to SpEd?
Joshua Ivan shots fired
Joshua Ivan are you the type to be ugly😭
@@JuuKit lmao at least he gave out facts, not disrespect
Leaning Tower Of Pisa: I am the Seven Wonders of the World
Rasputia: *HOW YOU DOIN*
Tower of Pisa : not famous
Leaning Tower of Pisa : famous
Wth is this?
I don't know if I would call the leaning tower of Pisa a mistake when it's an 840 + year old engineering marvel that's in perfect condition.
It was never intended to lean. It is a mistake because the original engineers failed to factor in the type of ground they were building on, something that had been a known practice for over a thousand years before it was built.
D. They know...theyre point is....can something so miraculous be a "mistake"
@@ShanieCakesss I think the engineers that built the leaning tower of Pisa knew the rock bed was a sinkhole and that's why they placed massive footers under it instead
@@ShanieCakesss I don't get you
@@smenard8388 k
I was about to comment "why not just dig the other side of the tower to balance the lean?" Good thing it did happen.
It's dangerous.
@@Cheese9-11 But they literally did that to fix it
I thought that too. Also rigid hydraulic pressure on the low side. Most previous solutions seemed stupid to me as an engineer.
I have been fascinated by this since I was a little kid. I’m 59 now and still fascinated by it.
Have you visited?
@@grod805 no. I have been to Italy, but not to Pisa. Perhaps on my next Italian trip we will get there.
Nice to know I wasn’t the only big mistake.
Solar System rude much?
adamd664 I mean he wasn’t wrong, it’s probably why I’m being thrown to my relatives homes.
@@lianecajipe5138 you can come live with me.
Looks like this "Solar System" guy deleted his comment
@@braeeee_ lmfao I hate these r/woosh's
Any History lovers? High five!
Especially Egyptian and Indian history...
I would love to know more about History. But there is one big problem with it. There is to much misleading information. Specially when they start talking about ancient civilizations. Egypt and others...
19th and 20th century for me
European history especially 1400’s 1500’s 1600’s 1700’s and early 1800’s
Down low too slow nerd
I'm no engineer but relieving the ground of some of it's soil on the high side of the tower would have been my first choice.
Exactly, but Italy is famous for it's corrupt politicians and if Moussolini has a cement factory, you can guess whose gonna get the contract to try and fix it.... Even still though, the cement guys could have stilll extracted the clay from the high side!
@@vice.nor.virtueMussolini, al massimo
Am I the only one anxiously watching this?
One day in Rome I was approached by a couple of young south Americans that asked me if the tower of Pisa was far from there. Probably they didn't realize that "Pisa" was a town located in another place.
Italy: *Gets an Earthquake*
Tower of Pisa "I WILL NOT FALL!*
Italy is one of the most seismically active countries in Europe. It hasn’t fallen for centuries. It won’t.
Why am I watching this? I can literally see the tower from my bedroom window. Help
i was bored due to lock down no other reason
I was recently in pisa, have you been to barbaldi?
Lovely
Lucky
Hope your house is not on the leaning side!
That’s so insane. I didn’t know the story behind this... thank u for sharing
@@mrspring3009 Jeez...
mr spring that’s funny as hell
mr spring lmao your so funny
2:43 Did she just say "defying the law of Felix"?
Physics.
The larof felix
A
Fix it felix jr
Leaning tower of pisa: im getting this close
Tower: leans
Italy: Amazing. We must keep it for 100s of years
The point they missed here is that even if the lean angle is brought to zero, it will still not be straight. Reason; it was never built straight. Actually they tried to straightened it up during construction but tilting didn't stop and we got a wonder of the world.
It's a shame how the tower gets all the attention, while the baptistry and cathedral are amazingly beautiful.
are those baptistry and cathedral lean?
None of it would get any attention if the tower wasn’t leaning
Best informative video ever ...it provided everything I wanted to to ..thank you so much
I visited the leaning tower.
It was incredible.
Let me get this straight, we don't even have enough technology today to fill a pothole properly and yet we are criticizing how they built a tower that is still standing today. I don't think so.
Civic investment is different from engineering.
The tower of pisa is like a tower falling down but the speed is -300
The last solution was brilliant. 🤣 It's like what my instructor always say, "the solution is very simple. Don't over think"
Thanks for an informative and educational video.
2:38 when she told you "look at my eyes when im taking to you" but you just couldn't do it.
Love Discovery UK & the leaning tower of Pisa
The tower hasn't collapsed to this day because the underlying soil is behaving like a plastic, hence is undergoing plastic deformation. As engineering geologists and geotechnical engineers we often use this marvelous to improve the understanding of soil mechanics.
Who else thought about digging beneath the tower before they mentioned it?
Surprisingly, the following piece of information is missing in this video. This piece of information, I believe, can explain why the bell tower did not topple: "Construction of the tower occurred IN THREE STAGES over 199 years. In 1173, the foundations of the tower were laid. The tower began to sink after construction had progressed to the second floor in 1178. This was due to a mere three-metre foundation, set in weak, unstable subsoil, a design that was flawed from the beginning. Construction was subsequently halted for almost a century, as the Republic of Pisa was almost continually engaged in battles. THIS ALLOWED TIME FOR THE UNDERLYING SOIL TO SETTLE. Otherwise, the tower would almost certainly have toppled. Between 1233 and 1272 , the works resumed. In an effort to compensate for the tilt, the engineers BUILT UPPER FLOORS WITH ONE SIDE TALLER THAN THAN THE OTHER. Because of this, the tower is CURVED. Construction was halted again in 1284 when the Pisans were defeated in an important battle. The seventh floor was completed in 1319. The bell-chamber was finally added in 1372. [Source: Wikipedia]
When I first saw this in 1969, I didn't even want to step foot inside of it, to climb to the top! Shows you how pronounced, the lean, actually is!
Go to Venice, every church tower's a leaning tower, you'd save the cost.
Going to Venice will cost you a lot more than going to Pisa, trust me
@@marcofava in the end I'm trying to say leaning towers are everywhere. Some tilt More some tilt less even this stupid tower isn't the most tilted.
The funny thing is some old engendering are abandoned or we have forgotten bout them but but this one is still standing
London Bridge: "I am falling down"
Leaning Tower: 'Stand tall even when you are about to Fall'
"No one knows why it never collapsed"
That's the unique thing about ancient engineers, modern one won't get it😊
@Maximus venice is constructed on hundreds of small islands, in the ocean.
@@stefthorman8548 Mediterraneo isn't an ocean
@@rbgr8815 it's an sea, the Mediterranean sea.
@@stefthorman8548 That's why it is different from an ocean.
@@rbgr8815 it's close enough. An the guy I was first replying to probably thought it was on the mainland.
Imperfection is beauty
To everyone saying that digging on the other side was your first thought: it was mine too, BUT there are other factors at play. I don't know a ton about it so I can't say for sure, but i assume the reason they didn't do this before was because of a lack of technology. To burrow into soil that has had a tower that heavy pressing down on it for that many centuries has to take an incredible amount of power--and, on top of that, to do it without destabilizing the tower with all the movement from said power. I don't know for sure, but i think it's a safe bet to say that the engineers weren't just plain stupid.
I would be very interested in a follow up video on why nobody did this before!
So it leaned but it still stands today?
"If it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid."
The final solution they came up with was the first solution I thought of. Lol.
Remember when evil Superman straightened it out as an act of rebellion and then re leaned it to take back the evil deeds
From the first depiction of the foundation, I figured the best solution would be to undermine the high side. Additionally, I would have gotten it down to between 2 and 3 degrees, installed friction piles for support then poured a cement slab under the tower to keep it in place.
I would have ripped it down and made a better one that isn't so boring and ugly
@@voidremoved Well then it's a good job you're not in charge of anything anywhere whatsoever and also do not live in Europe.
I would have left it to see how far it could go. Then rebuild it properly after it fell.
The fact that they were able to build that tower already amazed me lol
Look at Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. It was built in 1500 and it still the biggest bricks dome in the world. No one is and was better than the italians in engineering.
Engineers: *expecting tower to fall*
Leaning tower of Pisa: I can, but I won’t
Call me boring but I would not be going up that. 👀
I did, and nothing happened.
JEAN GRUEN fuck
lmao i’ve been up it so many times, it’s a surreal experience climbing up steps but about to fall back
When you actually stand outside of it, you would not trust it!
Lol at the start of the video I was like “why not just dig a bit out on the other side and let it fall back” guess I shoulda Been an engineer
DemonCore44 same bruh
Well explaned
i can imagine how this tower rolls its eyeballs mocking these poor engineers lol
“From-a this-a tower, you can see all-of-a-Pisa! Heeeeyyyy, look-a, I can see-a my mama’s house-a from here-a!” **hops up and down** “HEEEEYYYYYY, MAMA MIA, LOOK AT MEEEEE-A!” **tower tips** “Oops-a!”
Structural Engineering Masterpiece
Climbing that thing is so trippy it feels like ur going down
Wow amazing!!!
I remember going up this in 1988. Weird feeling climbing the stairs.
How can you put so little information in a 7 minute video?
“Enough to prevent a collapse-“ oh ok that good
“For now” oh shit
I kept of wondering what would happen if the tower fell while people were being interviewed
I took one look at it and thought, just dig on the opposite side so it straightens out. Did i just speed run years of engineering school?!
I was thinking that too, and I'm no engineer. Just seemed like a good idea.
Is that the shouty guy from the Cillit Bang commercial?
Why is this on my recommend at 2 in the morning when I should be asleep
Thank you.
There are 2 other leaning towers in Pisa: S. Nicola and S. Michele degli Scalzi!
We are masters in amazing architectural mistakes!
“It was closed to the public”
He getting coronavirus early
Thanks❤🌹
Ancient Greek Architecture Mistake is still a beauty
Modern Architecture mistake becomes Tragedy..
If this was built today, people would have just ignored it and said it looked stupid
Piza makes every rapper jealous with that lean
They should dig another time underneath the higher side to make it 3°, otherwise any earthquake or natural disaster can crush this great tower down. The soil underneath the tower is ex-swamp region, so there must be a layer of semi solid soil that previously caused it to lean. Also it seems risky to go up in top of the tower, public access can be lethal if something wrong happens.
This has nothing on the leaning tower of Dallas.
Italy: known for pizza, pasta, and failure. 😳
Lol, I thought about their "brilliant solution" as soon as I saw their first attempt and I'm no engineer. I'm sure a ton of people also thought about digging the other side for balancing it hahaha
Im here because of the picture in facebook saying that he only bought the miniature of leaning tower of pisa for only 50 pesos 😆
Humans are interesting. For some reason instead of fixing it fully or tearing it down, we make sure that it is still leaning but not too much.
Sincerely Hard work
The leaning tower of Pisa wont fall due to something called dymanic soil structure interaction, which describes the relationship between the soils softness and the tower's height and rigidty.
Thanks to all people who have pushed this tower in the pictures . See how so many push tilted the tower. Now we have push it from other side guys.
this is awesome because all the other wonders of the world are boring this has a sense of humour
Awesome and also may be you need explorr . THE GREAT Ramappa Temple
When i were in Tuscany, Pisa Tower were almost the only thing i skipped as it's nothing special. There is many leaning towers around the planet.
That part in Superman 3 with pisa brought me here.
True perfection is imperfection
and it still stands longer than building we build today LMAO
I literally thought of the last solution 3 minutes into the video.
.. i have to admit that when i walk around that place , or drive around , i don't even raise my head for watch it ..
That's a wonder of the world, yo! I used to play in there!
I hate to admit it as an engineer but this isn't an architect's mistake. It's an engineer's mistake. The architect is not responsible for ground investigations (finding out how the ground behaves and its properties), a geotechnical engineer deals with these things.
If I went into that tower, my anxious ass would not make it. Seriously.
Sometimes it's our mistakes that make us great, it wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't doing it's own thing. All It needed was a little help from it's friends.
I am from Pisa and there is an entire church here that leans much more than the tower ahahahahah
The engineering is giant♥️🥰😍
So this is the leaning tower of pisa. I keep on thinking what is it on my reviewer book hahaha, now i know what it is.