The Statue of Liberty: Building an Icon

in New York Harbor sends a

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that is synonymous with freedom and democracy to the world's most recognizable monuments and a symbol of hope for millions, but to truly appreciate this

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ic structure it is necessary to understand the financial and technical challenges we face in converting it actually, this is the construction. The story behind one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 19th century remains the tallest

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in the United States, more than 130 years after its completion, the Statue of Liberty was a record-breaking construction project at the time in which the gigantic company held titles such as the highest science. structure ever erected largest concrete pour ever and largest use of copper in a single structure the Statue of Liberty was conceived to celebrate the centennial of American independence by a French intellectual and anti-slavery activist named Edward delivered a statue in 1865 to honor both the centennial and America's friendship with France, five years later in 1870, French sculptor Frederic Auguste Batali began designing the statue, a robed female figure representing the Roman goddess Libertas, after a visit to the US.

He met orbitally with many prominent Americans, including President US CSS Grants. The project was announced in 1875. The statue was named Liberty Enlightening the World, a title it would hold until 1924, when it became a National Monument and was officially renamed the Statue of Liberty. France would finance the statue, the Americans would be responsible for providing a site and

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a huge pedestal on which the statue would be placed to finance each element. Ambitious fundraising campaigns were launched on both sides of the Atlantic, while overall plans have initially not yet been finalized, but Hawley got started. make the right arm bury the torch to help gain public support for the project the armor was sent to the United States and displayed at the Centennial International Exposition of 1876, the first official World's Fair for a fee of 50 Cent.

Visitors climb a ladder to the balcony to receive the money. The proceeds went directly to funding the project. When the exhibition closed, the arm was transported to New York, where it remained on display in Madison Square Park for six years before reuniting with the rest of the statue in France. Similarly, the head and shoulders were also built and became one of the main attractions at the Paris World's Fair of 1878. During construction models of the statue were put on sale, tickets were offered to see the construction workshop and the French government authorized the lottery. By the end of 1879 about 250,000 francs had been raised.

To make his colossal statue a reality, Bartoli sought the expertise of France's best professionals, first hiding his mentor Eugene and then Duke, the architect responsible for the restoration, Dr. Dan Paris, acting as chief engineer, V Lilitu here designed a puncture within the charter to which the skin would be anchored. These sheets would be molded using a method called rendering. The copper is heated and then struck with wooden hammers. The copper is hammered to less than a tenth of an inch or two point four millimeters thick creating a statue that is considerably lightweight given its volume. When Villa Leduc died unexpectedly in 1879, the innovator Gustave Eiffel was hired to replace him while Eyeful retained the plating.

Leduc copper, he abandoned the inner pair of brick and opted for To adopt a more modern approach, he designed the central iron pylon with backs 92 feet or 28 meters high as the main support of the structure, a precursor to his famous tower in Paris, originally assembled in France. The pylon serves as the statue's backbone supporting a secondary skeleton or armor that conforms to the exterior contours. This armor alone contains over a mile of iron bars every two inches wide. The 300 sections of copper sheet weighing a total of 80 tons were attached to the armor using 1/2 thousand U-shaped copper mounts.

Like some 300,000 police rivets, the innovative design makes the statue one of the first examples of warning curtain structures. The exterior of the structure is not lightly loaded and is instead supported by an interior frame with his experience in bridge construction and engineering to accommodate wind loads. Eiffel chose not to create a rigid structure, the flexibility of its design allows a statue to withstand the winds across New York Harbor and temperature changes that cause stresses to build up in the skin, allowing it to crack. with the strong wind. The statue can move as much as possible. Three inches, while the arm can deflect up to five inches, combining Eiffel and late Dukes designs.

The completed statue was manufactured and then assembled in Paris between 1881 and 1884, then disassembled, packed into 14 torsion boxes, and shipped to the United States aboard the French Navy ship. Hazir, the prefabricated statue, was received with great fanfare in New York Harbor on June 17, 1885 before the pedestal in the harbor was completed. Ali's trip to New York in 1871 marked a small island in the harbor as a non-ideal location for the statue of him, fortuitously the island. The home of a disused military base was already owned by the US federal government with a resolution signed by President Grant. The place was selected as the site for the statue.

Its strong in the shape of an 11-pointed star. Wood would become the basis of the pedestals, although it may seem. It's hard to believe today, getting funding for the project was actually extremely difficult; with only one hundred and fifty thousand dollars raised, the project stalled, prompting Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the New York newspaper of the world, to launch a campaign. to raise the remaining one hundred thousand dollars that Pulitzer raised. his goal with a staggering 80 percent of the funds we received his children of less than $1 the neoclassical pedestal that measured less than 89 feet or 27 meters tall was an impressive construction task in itself Richard Morris Hunt his founder of the Institute American Architects was chosen to design the structure while the chief engineer of the general part of the dome was appointed.

Hunt's original concept, the pedestal constructed of solid granite, was seen, but financial concerns forced him to revise his plans and instead embark on the largest mass concrete pour to date. The final design required pouring. Concrete walls up to 20 feet or 6 meters thick with granite blocks to accommodate anticipated wind loads for huge reinforcing beams formed in a square that were placed as concrete. At 29 feet or 9 meters from the pedestal a second square of beams was placed 55 feet or 17 meters higher, a few feet from the top of the pedestal with the two sets connected by iron beams, the statue itself was anchored to these beams making Liberty and a concrete base a single entity When the pedestal was completed in 1886, the statue was quickly assembled on top of it, more than 20 years after its first imagination or until 28, 1886, it was finally given to see the copper-colored statue.

It would take 30 more years to completely oxidize and become the distinctive green color we see today, realizing that this

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was significant. To carry out this task, they hired leading professionals at the time on both sides of the Atlantic. Today, the Statue of Liberty stands proud at the gateway to the United States, an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy and what human engineers are truly capable of. If you enjoyed this video. I would like to For more information on the ultimate construction video channel, please subscribe to v1m which