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Random pic 11 October 2021

Professor John Burland, of Imperial College, who built computer models of what had and was currently happening to the leaning tower and devised the temporary mechanism of lead counter weights to stabilise the movement and the soil extraction techniques to move it back (with some help from his PhD students and others) - seen here with some of the monitoring equipment at the base of the tower, October 18           https://flic.kr/p/2artvkZ
A paper written by Prof Burland about the stabilisation: https://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/issue-10/the-stabilisation-of-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa And a diagram that shows how the tower was stabilised; an important point that Prof Burland and his team at IC ascertained was that the tower wasn't just leaning, it was rotating around a point ~⅓ from the base of the tower: https://www.google.com/search?q&tbm=isch&ictx=1&tbs=rimg:CWXKLhPF_1tOvIghlyi4Txf7TryoSCWXKLhPF_1tOvEQUUvWdBwB-M&hl=en-GB&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif1a-tq77zAhUQGhQKHTw2AyMQiRx6BAgAEAQ&biw=1280&bih=632#imgrc=4TU5s2l3YOnQGM

Michael Ixer ● 1343d3 Comments

:-) :-) :-) :-)

Ivonne Holliday ● 1343d

Yes, Ivonne, science and technology at it's best; although perhaps the anti-vaxxers and their conspiracy generating friends would deny the tower was leaning in the first place  :-)

Michael Ixer ● 1343d

That was an amazing feat! Thank you for posting, Michael.

Ivonne Holliday ● 1343d