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Thomas Edison wanted the Statue of Liberty to talk. |
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| While Edison failed in making Lady Liberty talk, he succeeded on a much smaller scale by creating the first talking doll toy. In April 1890, Edison's factory produced a set of 22-inch-tall dolls with miniature phonographs embedded in the torso. Some 500 were sold. Unfortunately, the dolls were returned in droves, as their fragile voice boxes were easily destroyed upon being played with. What's more, the dolls sang songs such as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," but the sound was eerie and distorted due to the rudimentary phonographic technology. The toy was a massive flop for Edison, though it inspired future generations of successful talking dolls. | |
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The Statue of Liberty was originally brown. | ||||||||||||||
| When French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi completed work on the Statue of Liberty in 1885, its copper exterior glimmered a lustrous brown color. However, after Lady Liberty's arrival in New York Harbor, the statue was left exposed to the elements, and over the decades it evolved to its current seafoam green hue. This drastic physical transformation was due to copper corrosion, which happens to any copper material that's exposed to weather over time. The copper reacted with oxygen, sulfuric acid, chloride, and other components of the surrounding air and water to undergo a gradual visual erosion that left it with the greenish color we recognize today. In 1906, newspapers ran stories about proposed projects to repaint the statue, though the idea led to public outcry among those who preferred the green hue. Fortunately for them, chemists believe the current color has stabilized, and the green patina even protects the statue's metal against the surrounding elements. | ||||||||||||||
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