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Show HIGH BELL TOWER MOVED CliKSCENTIXO, Italy (UP). llii; slniclurcs such as belfrey towers tow-ers were ninvctP about in this eity without the aid of modern machinery machin-ery ir0 years airo. The eity is now celcliratin' the sesijiiiceateanial of Oroscentiuo Serra, an illiterate workman, who moved tile huu'e cathedral liell-tower ten feet in 17711. Serra. knowing nothing ahout mathematics or en','iuoorin, performed per-formed the feat in less than two hours. So sure was lie as to the success (if his undertaking that he placed his son on the steeple ringing the liells as it was heing moved, while the crowd of excited and cheering onlookers feared that the structure would fall any moment. In principle, there was no difference differ-ence in Norm's method and the ni'-t hod used today. A bridge of lic.nns was huilt under the structure while eiu-ht ropes and windlasses were used to drag the lielfrey along the l.ridgi- to its new site. Serra did all his figuring mentally and in-j luitively. . I |