The Leaning Tower Of Pisa: Italy’s Legendary Architectural Mistake | Massive Engineering Mistakes

[@sonnygarcia9850]

Just put a bottle cap under it it will be okay

[@iloveyoushaiapouf]

why didnt this have any likes LMAO

[@dotdankory]

or 4 bottle caps

[@mubashir3875]

how?

[@byhadeel5459]

HAHAHAAHAHAA

[@Marklee-lx7cd]

I don't get it

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

I remember going up this in 1988. Weird feeling climbing the stairs.

[@vinayak186f3]

Le Micheal jackson flexing his leaning dance Pisa tower *are you challenging me?*

[@kvndreamteam]

It's amazing that not a single earthquake has ever happened there! Then again, even though the tower has remained standing for centuries, considering all the modern technologies, isn't it possible to disassemble the tower, establish the proper foundation and then have the tower rebuilt upon that foundation? It's just a thought, you know. After all, I only care so much about it, since whenever it does collapse, I'll still be 1,000's of miles away from it, just as I am now...

[@jenaskymillan6976]

0:08 he has sunglasses but decided to take it off and looked directly at the sun

[@Jordan-vw1mf]

Haha

[@riccardorocca1280]

Lmao I didn't notice that

[@uhdavid]

He didn’t look at the sun he looked at the tower

[@jenaskymillan6976]

David Garcia i know

[@uhdavid]

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

[@kellogscornflakes2430]

Engineer: “are you going to fall over?” Leaning tower of Pisa: “no, no I don’t think I will”

[@shireenfatima3581]

peculiar boast but alas Don't think 🤣🤣

[@triwagon9242]

Its pretty much how it is

[@yuridbch]

2089: yep, it fell.

[@juniorsir9521]

Why don’t they remove more sand so that the Tower returns to its upright position?

[@SacsachCCABP]

@@juniorsir9521 Italy would lose one of it’s tourist attractions. But I guess the tower IS sinking AND leaning…

[@Jose-wd6kn]

Just fold a piece of paper and put it under it

[@adi5877]

some glue and you're good to go

[@Marsalien100]

That's what you do for a wobbly table.

[@staliniumprojectile]

@@Marsalien100 well done, you got the joke...

[@poe6328]

i feel like this was inspired from the top comment XD

[@teles448]

Isn't this an engineering mistake and not an architectural mistake?

[@kirtfabrero7192]

Yeah I think so . Engineering deals with that

[@Rainolx]

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

[@teles448]

@@Rainolx still an engeneering mistake, not an architectural mistake

[@aggie7756]

@@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.

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

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.

[@CarryWater23]

“We don’t make mistakes, we make happy accidents “ That lean has kept a million people year visiting Pisa. That’s a gansta lean.

[@michaelh4227]

Love how they could've just made it straight, but decided to just make it still lean a bit.

[@smenard8388]

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.

[@RebSike]

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.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

@@smenard8388 It would still be a tourist destination. The tower's beautiful. And the churches are also beautiful.

[@jo-vf8jx]

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?

[@Marsalien100]

The lean brings in tourists.

[@HTEasySimple]

This tower is so famous that we always used in sample problems in trigonometry

[@yumchickens5676]

I’m literally doing trig homework with the tower of Pisa problem while reading this

[@damsie64]

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 :)

[@_1Pulkit]

😂😂

[@komalireddy662]

I did trigonometry problems of the tower in 1999✋✋✋

[@brandonsaraniti771]

It hasn't fallen because so many people have held it up in their photos.

[@graspthe_new9665]

Good one !😂

[@Seanotray121]

Belter

[@hellerart]

Be the Force with him.

[@jaymortality8387]

*its never collapsed* Earthquake: hold my beer

[@JuuKit]

B M-Y did you get picked on in school?

[@Josh-bx2vn]

@@JuuKit Are you the type that goes to SpEd?

[@ivanvrkljan1056]

Joshua Ivan shots fired

[@test-ky8tu]

Joshua Ivan are you the type to be ugly😭

[@vonilla2947]

@@JuuKit lmao at least he gave out facts, not disrespect

[@aimansteele]

Any History lovers? High five!

[@manish7897]

Especially Egyptian and Indian history...

[@gytispranskunas4984]

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...

[@reenactingjunkie2146]

19th and 20th century for me

[@memeoof5942]

European history especially 1400’s 1500’s 1600’s 1700’s and early 1800’s

[@dvtofk9908]

Down low too slow nerd

[@kenkishi8042]

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 .”

[@nni9310]

What impression did Italy and Italians make on you and your ex girlfriend?

[@kenkishi8042]

@@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.

[@nni9310]

@@kenkishi8042 thank you for your response.

[@woodonfire7406]

@@kenkishi8042 I'm sorry for what happened between you and your girlfriend

[@crymeaariver]

Woah

[@wanishafiqahbintimdshazaly7011]

Tower of Pisa : not famous Leaning Tower of Pisa : famous Wth is this?

[@ohnoeehiddengemamardanial793]

Leaning Tower Of Pisa: I am the Seven Wonders of the World Rasputia: *HOW YOU DOIN*

[@hiphophrc]

Shows how Humble the tower is, leaning forward with due respect

[@silverstorm6973]

Maybe it’s leaning backwards due to back pain

[@goodone5590]

It's Praising The Lord of Heaven Jesus Christ!

[@SacsachCCABP]

Plot twist: Tower: *leans south* Europeans: *WE GO TO AFRICA*

[@SacsachCCABP]

ITS LEANING TOWARDS THE HOLYLAND

[@Yaro2]

@@SacsachCCABP ye lets colonize africa again

[@loser3829]

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.

[@dhawthorne1634]

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.

[@ShanieCakesss]

D. They know...theyre point is....can something so miraculous be a "mistake"

[@loser3829]

@@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

[@smenard8388]

@@ShanieCakesss I don't get you

[@ShanieCakesss]

@@smenard8388 k

[@lianecajipe5138]

Nice to know I wasn’t the only big mistake.

[@adamd6648]

Solar System rude much?

[@lianecajipe5138]

adamd664 I mean he wasn’t wrong, it’s probably why I’m being thrown to my relatives homes.

[@angelainejarrett1115]

@@lianecajipe5138 you can come live with me.

[@braeeee_]

Looks like this "Solar System" guy deleted his comment

[@rowoki3122]

@@braeeee_ lmfao I hate these r/woosh's

[@textmachine09]

I was about to comment "why not just dig the other side of the tower to balance the lean?" Good thing it did happen.

[@Cheese9-11]

It's dangerous.

[@littlekreeper8918]

@@Cheese9-11 But they literally did that to fix it

[@ezrakirkpatrick5365]

I thought that too. Also rigid hydraulic pressure on the low side. Most previous solutions seemed stupid to me as an engineer.

[@riccardomonti2506]

Why am I watching this? I can literally see the tower from my bedroom window. Help

[@rahulraj39]

i was bored due to lock down no other reason

[@maxthompson6228]

I was recently in pisa, have you been to barbaldi?

[@globetrotter9212]

Lovely

[@harbymastopia9635]

Lucky

[@1Jason]

Hope your house is not on the leaning side!

[@cristianocarrilloso3343]

Am I the only one anxiously watching this?

[@unioneitaliana7107]

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.

[@Barbarra63297]

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.

[@vice.nor.virtue]

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!

[@mallorygrace8190]

​@@vice.nor.virtueMussolini, al massimo

[@Marsalien100]

Italy: *Gets an Earthquake* Tower of Pisa "I WILL NOT FALL!*

[@leonardom9190]

Italy is one of the most seismically active countries in Europe. It hasn’t fallen for centuries. It won’t.

[@SPQRCJ97]

2:43 Did she just say "defying the law of Felix"?

[@beernpizzalover9035]

Physics.

[@SleepyT71]

The larof felix

[@Mark-jo3ur]

A

[@ricardovaldez6465]

Fix it felix jr

[@julieeef5185]

That’s so insane. I didn’t know the story behind this... thank u for sharing

[@jonathonstefanowich9591]

@@mrspring3009 Jeez...

[@Jack-fw1by]

mr spring that’s funny as hell

[@maryagyemang9870]

mr spring lmao your so funny

[@EarthWasHere]

Just remove dirt from the opposite side so it can balance itself. Edit: never mind they did that.

[@MEGASTRIX]

They did it but they decided to preserve the tilt.

[@billythegoat4557]

Call me boring but I would not be going up that. 👀

[@jeangruen833]

I did, and nothing happened.

[@Interestingworld4567]

JEAN GRUEN fuck

[@social.abdi1520]

lmao i’ve been up it so many times, it’s a surreal experience climbing up steps but about to fall back

[@purplepussy3717]

When you actually stand outside of it, you would not trust it!

[@justice_crash2521]

Leaning tower of pisa: im getting this close

[@doodlememes]

crazy how they turned the pizza tower from pizza tower into a real tower

[@nytrex_yt7417]

The tower of pisa is like a tower falling down but the speed is -300

[@bigmacdaddy1234]

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.

[@vice.nor.virtue]

Civic investment is different from engineering.

[@analogica7017]

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]

[@maanzafar]

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.

[@rickintexas1584]

I have been fascinated by this since I was a little kid. I’m 59 now and still fascinated by it.

[@grod805]

Have you visited?

[@rickintexas1584]

@@grod805 no. I have been to Italy, but not to Pisa. Perhaps on my next Italian trip we will get there.

[@2KL4SKL26]

Who else thought about digging beneath the tower before they mentioned it?

[@MrBoliao98]

Go to Venice, every church tower's a leaning tower, you'd save the cost.

[@marcofava]

Going to Venice will cost you a lot more than going to Pisa, trust me

[@MrBoliao98]

@@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.

[@supersaulflores4055]

I'm pist!!!😡that was my idea 40 years ago and I was 12 years old!!!wth!!

[@kelash]

I visited the leaning tower. It was incredible.

[@FirstNameLastName-lj9zo]

It's a shame how the tower gets all the attention, while the baptistry and cathedral are amazingly beautiful.

[@derry9755]

are those baptistry and cathedral lean?

[@jakedeutscher]

None of it would get any attention if the tower wasn’t leaning

[@horlicksft.bournvita4933]

"No one knows why it never collapsed" That's the unique thing about ancient engineers, modern one won't get it😊

[@stefthorman8548]

@Maximus venice is constructed on hundreds of small islands, in the ocean.

[@rbgr8815]

@@stefthorman8548 Mediterraneo isn't an ocean

[@stefthorman8548]

@@rbgr8815 it's an sea, the Mediterranean sea.

[@rbgr8815]

@@stefthorman8548 That's why it is different from an ocean.

[@stefthorman8548]

@@rbgr8815 it's close enough. An the guy I was first replying to probably thought it was on the mainland.

[@romulocasas4906]

Remember when evil Superman straightened it out as an act of rebellion and then re leaned it to take back the evil deeds

[@gavinr9356]

Tower: leans Italy: Amazing. We must keep it for 100s of years

[@demoncore4467]

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

[@bhartidesai3522]

DemonCore44 same bruh

[@successisinmydna8101]

This has nothing on the leaning tower of Dallas.

[@kuldeepmore99]

What if Burj Khalifa leans like this 🤔

[@bballstar5256]

It wouldn’t be able to bear its own weight and then collapse upon probably thousands of people standing “under it” and be a mass genocide committed by a skyscraper

[@vvp8590]

The final solution they came up with was the first solution I thought of. Lol.

[@karoma7898]

How can you put so little information in a 7 minute video?

[@michaeldada-py5le]

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[@j.mortha]

Imperfection is beauty

[@princessmarlena1359]

“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!”

[@ad1das97]

They will never perfectly remove the lean otherwise it will not stay famous.

[@robindabank3512]

Yeah it’s name would change and I think the only reason we know about it even when we were kids is because of its title leaning

[@natchosm4320]

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.

[@chrisnicula6256]

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.

[@kentgregorio2680]

So it leaned but it still stands today? "If it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid."

[@katelenea.caacbay6635]

The last solution was brilliant. 🤣 It's like what my instructor always say, "the solution is very simple. Don't over think"

[@dedsec69]

2:38 when she told you "look at my eyes when im taking to you" but you just couldn't do it.

[@inkognitopracholochos]

I wanna see it Fall. It can be interesting.

[@SacsachCCABP]

“It was closed to the public” He getting coronavirus early

[@clasher6124]

Kevin Lee see holes in the engineering.

[@kennmor812]

Such a nice thing to see on non-mma related channels.

[@riskyphala8575]

The funny thing is some old engendering are abandoned or we have forgotten bout them but but this one is still standing

[@Covents2s]

If this was built today, people would have just ignored it and said it looked stupid

[@RATsnak3]

Italy: known for pizza, pasta, and failure. 😳

[@artu262]

I am from Pisa and there is an entire church here that leans much more than the tower ahahahahah

[@shellyn.1100]

“Enough to prevent a collapse-“ oh ok that good “For now” oh shit

[@TheKieshaKiesha]

im brilliant. the second i saw their little animation i said drill under the foundation and sink the other side. Took how many engineers, and spent how much money coming up with an idea that i had within seconds. They said it was a brilliant idea so, im fuckin brilliant.

[@purplepussy3717]

It had a moat around the base, when I saw it, in 1969!

[@ariadnegmusdaedaloximo708]

A _Famous_ Mistake

[@lilguilty]

So I always thought that the tower was built that way. I don’t understand why someone would go inside this building or why they wouldn’t take it down. “Let’s just wait to see how many people it kills because it made us a lot of money “

[@braydenshanga2654]

Engineers: *expecting tower to fall* Leaning tower of Pisa: I can, but I won’t

[@gabrielcrespo966]

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?!

[@marylandgirl9246]

I was thinking that too, and I'm no engineer. Just seemed like a good idea.

[@joppekim]

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.

[@xCandieAndiex]

No cap, the first solution I though of would be to dig under the higher part slowly and gravity readjust it. Idk wtf all the other engineer were doing by using liquid nitrogen, steel cables, and cement. Literally the definition of over-engineering.

[@chrislockard1922]

Its common when drilling because when you dig it starts getting water inside the hole youre drilling so liquid nitrogen freezes the water.

[@chrislockard1922]

And they actually did dig watch the video again.

[@AvaSun-yo2wy]

Should be revising for gcses but I’m here

[@jabulanisello3712]

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.

[@susannatorres4670]

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!

[@shaza5593]

They Brought tilted toweres for fortnite into real life 💀

[@Aryan_IITD]

Go through ratneshwar temple Varanasi it's more tilted

[@dimitri2414]

2:38-2:52I'd like to know where your center of mass is cuz those eyes oof😂😂😂

[@purplepussy3717]

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!

[@Nilmadhav183]

We have leaning temple in kashi (varanasi).

[@KaliLatin]

I Wonder what would happen if everyone jump the same time on that tilted tower :)

[@Joeelectronicschematicsforauto]

How many people came here after the collapse that happened in Florida I did obviously

[@b.a.brackus6371]

(Going lean) isn't a new concept....

[@isamaaltaein8672]

I think the reason of the tower leaning is the bottom of the tower is too small . I mean the bottom diameter of the tower should be bigger .The bottom's tower has small dimeter and too high that was wrong construction . Next year I will visiting the tower I wish still there !!!!!!!????????????

[@angelobaluyot5681]

I realy love history and science and im just 10

[@alliyahjannaaveria5412]

Im here because of the picture in facebook saying that he only bought the miniature of leaning tower of pisa for only 50 pesos 😆

[@katerinakouzalou8464]

The towel of pisa is historical they have to save but its also catastrophic

[@bijaysahoo4697]

Who is here after corona virus

[@Voyager_666]

Best informative video ever ...it provided everything I wanted to to ..thank you so much

[@bustedfender]

Is that the shouty guy from the Cillit Bang commercial?

[@Jsjsjsjhsb]

Who all are fans of history

[@MrDavidht]

They should thank Professor John Burland of Imperial College who was behind the concept and supervised the removal of soil from beneath the foundation.

[@heivmnox]

i can imagine how this tower rolls its eyeballs mocking these poor engineers lol

[@Andy1076]

Glad the engineers didn't cause too much damage in the process of trying to 'save' it. China tried that with their wall and it turned into a disaster, hope this tower will stand for many more generations to come.

[@duncandistortion]

Leaning tower of pizza.

[@kayzeaza]

Why not just make a structure for it to lean on

[@un-deniable2140]

Space Racer26 the structure wouldn’t be able to evenly disperse the force of the Piza’s mass along the structure. The structure wouldn’t look that great as well if it were built

[@olukayodeokunowo4631]

If the will is there the tower can be savage but unfortunately political influences might not. I pray this historical tower is rescued.

[@yahikotendo5631]

What I don't get is that, if it's leaning and has a chance of falling, why would you make it a tourist attraction? It's a danger. Why were they persuaded into keeping it there?

[@IvanPlayStation4LiFe]

for more than 100 years

[@pippopino6948]

Cause its not about to collapse... The tower Is safe... For now Its just leaning... If It keeps leaning more and more then It May collapse... The tower is one of the wonders of the modern world... In Italy we do not put down art that someday may or may not collapse ... here we try not to let them collapse ...

[@gunduzubairzubairahmed3127]

Thanks❤🌹