The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of the United States of America and the freedom of every citizen. It is hard to find a person who has never heard anything about it or never seen it. The statue was built in France and offered to America to the centenary of the country's independence.

The idea of the monument came to the French writer and politician Edouard Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye. He discussed it with the familiar sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi who later became its architect. To build a monument of such dimensions, it was necessary to create a frame. It let the copper sheath of the statue to move freely and keep the vertical position. Even Gustave Eiffel, who built the tower in Paris, was participating in the construction of the Statue of Liberty.

During the World Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia, Bartholdi showed numerous images of the future statue. All of the sketches were without a hand holding a torch because he didn't have time to include it in the catalogs. Nevertheless, he found a solution. The architect brought a made hand with a torch to the exhibition in Philadelphia and let visitors come to the balcony, located at the top of the torch. Even skeptics of this idea changed their minds after visiting the balcony.

For many years, the hand was keeping in Philadelphia and waited for the work on the base and the statue itself to be completed. In 1885, after four months of installation, the grand opening of the Statue of Liberty took place. Interestingly, only men could attend that event. Though it was considered a symbol of democracy, the ladies were not invited.