The Wonders of Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty, titled officially as Liberty that is Enlightening the World, a monument, was dedicated on the 28th of October, 1886 to remember the centennial of United States Declaration of their Independence bestowed by the French government to U.S. to signify the alliance between two nations recognized in the duration of American Revolution.

The sculpture symbolizes a woman who wears a stola, a glowing crown and flip-flops, stepping on a wrecked chain, holding a torch rose in her right hand and tabula ansata in her left hand, engraved there was the date July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence of U.S.A. The statue stands on Liberty Island in the harbor of New York which welcomes guests, migrants and American returnees who travel by ship. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi carved this statue and he got a patent from U.S. for the structure.

The interior was engineered by Maurice Koechlin, the designer of Eiffel Tower and the head engineer of the engineering company of Gustave Eiffel. Architect Richard Morris Hunt designed the platform. Eugene Violet-le-Duc did the in charge for the selection of copper within constructing the statue and the implementation of repousse technique, wherein a flexible metal is pounded on the inverted side.

The Statue is covered with pure copper, dangling on steel frame, not including the fire of torch that is covered in golden leaf is located on top of a rectangular wall platform with base in the form of uneven eleven piercing star. The structure is 46 meter tall, however with the platform and base, its height is 93 meters.

In the U.S., the statue is the most familiar symbol known globally. It is one of the primary glances in America with the millions of migrants and guests in the ocean journeys from the universe.

The National Park in the U.S. is the one who administers the Liberty Statue National Monument with statue as its central part.

Physical Characteristics of the Statue of LibertyThe internal portion of statue was opened to guests after July 4, 2009. Visitors must buy tickets upon them reach the place by ferryboats, check in then proceed to the bottom for the beginning of the walking up to the monument.

There are 146 stairs to climb on the dual twisting ladder before reaching the top. Only ten persons are allowed at one time, and three groups are permitted to go up the crown in an hour. The visitors can view the New York's Harbor through the 25 windowpanes which is approximately 46 cm high. Regularly, the waiting outside will exceed from 3 hours, not including the waits for the ships and the tickets.

Within the statue along with the platform are the 354 staircase, 35 windows within the crown that compose the gems under the 7 rays of crown. The keystones are found in the left hand of the statue has inscription of date for the Independence Declaration of the USA by Roman numerals of "July IV MOCCLXXVI".

The Liberty Statue was designed and engineered to endure heavy winds. Fifty miles/hour wind causes the statue to move and torch for swaying 5 inches. The wind permits the Structure to move than to wreck in high winds situation. The sculpture was made by top-heavy for creating a minor mandatory standpoint and come out proportioned more covertly seen from the bottom.