It worked partially only.įinally the danger of collapse was so acute that the city council went ahead with a plan.
Study after study was commissioned, but for many years city council after city council was not able to make a decision (I assume that italian city politics, like the national politics, is very volatile.)Īt one point in time many hundreds of tons of giant lead ingots were stacked in a cilinder section around the base, to increase the weight at the high side, in the hope that would decelerate the rate of increasing lean. That is, the lean wasn't increasing linear with time, it was speeding up. I don't know the details.)ĭecades ago it was discovered that this uneven settling was accelerating. (It could be that it wasn't just a process of compression, but that there was also reflow. The tower of Pisa started leaning because of uneven settling of the soil underneath it.
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