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Analysis Of The Statue Of Liberty

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The Statue of Liberty was first thought of in 1865 by Professor Edouard de Laboulaye in France as a monument of Americas newly founded freedom. It was mentioned at a dinner party where the Sculptor of the statue Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was to design. This monument is over 100 years old, stands at 305 feet, and has a total weight of 225 tons and as you can imagine the building of this massive statue took many different materials, a lot of site planning, and over two decades to complete it. Many materials were used in building the Statue of Liberty. These materials are concrete for the base of the statue, Copper for the exterior of the statue, wrought-iron for the bars that would hold the copper in place, glass for the windows in the crown, and then steel for the inside skeletal framework. In this statue there is 31 tons of copper, and 125 tons in the framework, because of this much work went into determining what materials were going to be used to build the statue. The reasons they had to put so much work into determining what materials they were going to use is because they came to an agreement with America. America was building the base while the statue itself would be built in France then shipped to America and assembled there. Since they came to this agreement the statue would have to be shipped from France to America and if the statue was too heavy the boat would have obviously sunk. So they thought of many materials they could use such as bronze and stone until they

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