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hi, my name is Adnan Latif and today I am going to talk about the Piza tower and one of my favorite

countries in my opinion, know you are asking why I love it first it is creative and second, it is a nice
building and one of the One of the SEVEN wonders of the World and it is Located in PISA, Italy at the
'Piazza die Miracoli' square and it was Renowned all over the world for its peculiar inclination in 1990
it was closed because of instruction and the reason was that it was Lening to the north side of the Tower
so wats the story of the tower In 1172, A widow named Berta di Bernardo left 60 cents in her will to purchase stones and construct a
bell tower and after almost 200 years to complete. By 1178, the Third floor was complete. It was observed at this stage that the tower was

leaning on the north side, and construction was on hold because of neighboring wars so what was the
reason Lening to the north side
The unstable mixture of soil caused the tower to sink to the south side
of the Tower Lening to the north side of the Tower
And Soil at south side compressed faster than the north side weight of the tower was the main factor of tilt but first, I asked why it did not fall when I

looked it up, I was shocked with whet I read “However, it would Collapse due to enormous stress. Stones on first few floors had most stress – they had to

support the weight = 14,700 tones”. So, what did Italy do to save the Piza tower
in 1992, plastic coated steel wires were
wrapped around the south side of the second floor to prevent a type of failure called “Buckling”.
Buckling = occurs when overly stressed walls suddenly burst outwards.
The tower was continued to incline to the south side.
In 1993, the incline was halted by stacking lead ingots on the north side of the tower.
Thank you

Adnan Latif

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