{"id":12061,"date":"2026-01-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uninter.edu.mx\/ehli\/?p=12061"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:06:21","slug":"the-arm-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uninter.edu.mx\/ehli\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/the-arm-of-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Statue of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Statue of Liberty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Statue of Liberty is probably the most famous icon of the USA. It was built to celebrate the end of slavery, and later became a symbol for freedom among immigrants. The statue depicts Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty. And the torch she carries in the arm of Liberty high above her outstretched arm represents a light that guides people along the path to freedom. Interestingly, however, Liberty looks different from the way the designer first intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea for the statue came from a poet, \u00c9douard de Laboulaye. When the American Civil war ended, he wanted to commemorate the end of the slave trade with a gift. He and other people who opposed slavery raised money and hired a sculptor, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric-Auguste Bartholdi, to design the statue. Bartholdi later employed the French engineer, Gustave Eiffel, to devise its structure. Eiffel, who would subsequently build the famous tower in Paris, was already a well-known designer of railway bridges. So he knew how to build robust structures that are flexible and safe in strong winds. This feature was necessary because the winds in New York harbor are extremely strong. Today, the top of her torch swings over 15cm when the wind is blowing at 50 miles per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eiffel designed the statue to be built around a massive metal skeleton, similar to the Eiffel tower. Huge pieces of copper were fixed onto this to form its shape. Until recently, two copies of the plans were believed to exist. But recently, a third copy was discovered, which revealed some interesting information. In 2018, a map dealer bought some historic papers at an auction in Paris, which included original plans, calculations, and drawings of the statue. At first, the documents were too fragile to read. But after special treatment, the papers clearly showed that Eiffel\u2019s plans had been changed by Bartholdi with red ink. Liberty\u2019s arm, which was thick and vertical in Eiffel\u2019s drawing, was adjusted to be slimmer, less upright, and generally more attractive than Eiffels\u2019 design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The changes in the plans are dated July 28, 1882, after the construction of the tower had begun. We don\u2019t know what Eiffel thought of Bartholdi\u2019s changes. By then, Eiffel was working on other projects, and only his assistants were working with Bartholdi in New York. Maybe Bartholdi thought he could make the changes because Eiffel was not there and would not complain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the changes made the arm not only more attractive but also weaker, which has created problems over the years. At first, visitors could climb a ladder to the torch in Liberty\u2019s arm, but in 1916, there was an explosion on a nearby island. It damaged the statue and made it unsafe, and the stairway to the torch has been closed ever since. During restoration work in the 1980s, engineers noticed that the structure inside Liberty\u2019s head, shoulders, and arm were different from how they were shown on Eiffel\u2019s plans. They thought that the builders had made mistakes, but some historians believed that Bartholdi had changed Eiffel\u2019s design. 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