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Language: en
the Statue of Liberty under its skin
lies one of the secrets to the Eiffel
Tower's structural strength in 1870
renowned French sculptor AUST bartoldi
imagines a 300t high statue in the form
of a woman celebrating the signing of
the US declaration of
independence bartoldi began his thoughts
about the Statute of Liberty in Egypt he
was making terracotta little models but
when it's about realizing and he has to
turn sculpture into a modern phenomenon
um the reason it can be that gigantic is
that it's
Hollow tall and in the shape of a person
yet
Hollow how does this structure hold
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together it's 6:00 a.m. in New York City
before thousands of visitors arrive
Ranger Matt house leads the way on an
exclusive tour Into the Heart of the
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statue the similarities with the Eiffel
Tower are easy to
spot what's most impressive about the
interior of the Statue of Liberty is how
all of this Iron and Steel works
together to hold her over 300 ft above
New York Harbor over a 100 Years of wind
and rain and she still stands because of
this interior
structure after the teams riveted
together the internal structures iron
beams they next installed a secondary
structure made out of hundreds of iron
bars on top of These Bars they attach
the copper skin piece by
piece and the secret to these layers
holding together is in one simple but
incredibly effective solution
rivets the inside of the Statue of
Liberty can be a disorienting place but
what you're seeing are hundreds of
copper plates so that's the dark metal
that you see all along the interior here
that's her skin and those copper plates
were all riveted together with thousands
of little copper rivets but the copper
skin has to be held up so you can see
there are thousands of Steel bars
connect the copper plates to the
secondary iron bars and all of those
iron bars connect back here to these
iron
pylon building High Building light and
building
strong mastering the art of riveting for
the Statue of Liberty would prove
crucial for years to come
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