The Engineering That Built The World Liberty Rising S01E02 Subtitles

At 00:00:02,000, Character said: A 225 -ton symbol of freedom visited by
more than

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At 00:00:08,320, Character said: 175 million.

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At 00:00:10,360, Character said: The Statue of Liberty is so iconic.
People don't think of the metal and the

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At 00:00:16,640, Character said: sweat that went into creating it.

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At 00:00:21,000, Character said: Her story begins 150 years ago in an
unlikely place with an unknown

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At 00:00:27,660, Character said: artist. Hell -bent on creating the
tallest statue of all time.

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At 00:00:32,450, Character said: It's something he has to do with his
life.

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At 00:00:35,390, Character said: It's a puzzle that takes 20 years to
solve. It was an engineering project,

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At 00:00:40,630, Character said: like a building than a work of art.

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At 00:00:44,010, Character said: How does she get her shape?

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At 00:00:46,050, Character said: Excuse me, Mr. Eiffel?

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At 00:00:49,410, Character said: The inside of the Statue of Liberty
looks like the Eiffel Tower.

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At 00:00:53,290, Character said: Her signature color. When it was first
built, it looked like a penny.

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At 00:00:58,040, Character said: What other secrets does she hold?

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At 00:01:00,560, Character said: His face is near identical to the face
of the Statue of Liberty.

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At 00:01:04,640, Character said: And how does it nearly end?

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At 00:01:06,980, Character said: Stop!

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At 00:01:08,520, Character said: In disaster.

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At 00:01:10,120, Character said: We need to really understand what kind
of audacity it took for Bartoldi to keep

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At 00:01:15,320, Character said: trying to make the statue.

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At 00:01:17,080, Character said: This is the surprising story of Liberty
Rising.

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At 00:01:47,720, Character said: It's 1865.

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At 00:01:49,680, Character said: In the United States, the Civil War has
left 750 ,000 soldiers dead.

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At 00:01:56,700, Character said: The conflict really pivots on the
question whether the United States can

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At 00:02:02,200, Character said: be a democratic republic and still have
an institution like human bondage.

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At 00:02:07,220, Character said: The answer to the question is a
resounding no.

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At 00:02:11,860, Character said: Six days after it ends, President
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.

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At 00:02:18,600, Character said: News that reverberates around the world.

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At 00:02:28,240, Character said: Especially in France, famous French
author Edouard René de Laboulaye is

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At 00:02:34,080, Character said: particularly outspoken about his love of
democracy, donating to United States

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At 00:02:38,920, Character said: anti -slavery efforts and singing
America's praises in his books.

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At 00:02:43,660, Character said: Laboulaye and his friends were fanboys
of the American experiment.

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At 00:02:48,800, Character said: There was nothing more important to him
than individual liberty, and the United

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At 00:02:53,380, Character said: States had it. France did not.

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At 00:02:55,600, Character said: Seventy -five years after its own
revolution, France is now a

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At 00:03:01,720, Character said: The very person they elect as president,
the nephew of the emperor Napoleon,

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At 00:03:06,520, Character said: overthrows the republic to establish
himself as the new emperor, calling

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At 00:03:11,240, Character said: himself... Napoleon III.

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At 00:03:13,510, Character said: Those who believed in the original
values of the French Revolution are

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At 00:03:19,950, Character said: thumb of Napoleon III. And they see in
the defeat of the

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At 00:03:26,430, Character said: Confederacy the capacity to revive their
values of freedom.

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At 00:03:32,390, Character said: Laboulaye has regular dinner parties
where he and his guests plot to

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At 00:03:36,890, Character said: French democracy.

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At 00:03:38,890, Character said: This time, he's invited an up -and
-coming artist.

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At 00:03:42,310, Character said: Here he is.

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At 00:03:44,330, Character said: Friends, meet Auguste Bartoldi.

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At 00:03:48,970, Character said: Frederic Auguste Bartoldi is a 31 -year
-old sculptor trying to make his mark in

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At 00:03:54,250, Character said: the art world.

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At 00:03:55,810, Character said: There are times when a dinner really
changes the course of history, and this

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At 00:04:00,210, Character said: dinner party was one of those times.

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At 00:04:03,920, Character said: There is a whole assembly of great men
there, you know, to talk over all the

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At 00:04:08,840, Character said: ideas of the time. And they're thinking,
we need to send something over to the

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At 00:04:13,700, Character said: United States that will show how much we
respect Abraham Lincoln and the ending

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At 00:04:19,860, Character said: of slavery there.

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At 00:04:21,720, Character said: We'll build them a monument, something
that shows we have a bond with the

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At 00:04:28,140, Character said: American people.

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At 00:04:30,620, Character said: And you're going to build it.

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At 00:04:37,960, Character said: Bartoldi is an unlikely choice.

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At 00:04:40,760, Character said: So far, he's shown little sign of
greatness.

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At 00:04:48,240, Character said: He starts his career in the 1850s,
trying his hand at painting.

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At 00:04:53,780, Character said: Bartoldi was a mediocre painter.

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At 00:04:56,640, Character said: He was always a visual artist, but
perhaps not the best in class.

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At 00:05:03,690, Character said: In 1855, Martoldi's mother uses family
connections to get him a job using a

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At 00:05:08,950, Character said: different skill, building the statue of
a French war hero for a government

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At 00:05:13,830, Character said: exhibit. But he's in over his head.

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At 00:05:17,170, Character said: By the time he's done with this thing,
it's about 25 feet, including the

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At 00:05:21,290, Character said: pedestal. It can barely fit out of the
studio with a one -inch clearance

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At 00:05:26,450, Character said: the doorway.

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At 00:05:27,370, Character said: When it was delivered to the venue,
everyone's like, we...

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At 00:05:31,770, Character said: Don't have that big of a door. We have a
problem. We're going to have to leave

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At 00:05:35,630, Character said: this at the entrance.

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At 00:05:37,830, Character said: Oh, that is the most prominent place at
this exhibition.

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At 00:05:43,130, Character said: For Bartoldi, this is the lesson that if
you build something a little bit too

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At 00:05:48,390, Character said: big, everyone will notice it.

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At 00:05:54,270, Character said: Ten years later, Laboulaye's proposal is
too late.

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At 00:05:58,340, Character said: Bartoldi already has another big job in
his sights.

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At 00:06:02,640, Character said: Egypt is creating the Suez Canal, the
greatest technological wonder of the

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At 00:06:07,820, Character said: The Suez Canal cuts the distance between
Asia and Europe in more than half.

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At 00:06:14,280, Character said: Imagine connecting east and west for the
first time in that way.

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At 00:06:18,620, Character said: Over 40 years before the Panama Canal,
Bartoldi is pitching the idea of a

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At 00:06:24,040, Character said: monumental statue for the waterway's
entrance.

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At 00:06:27,440, Character said: This is a time of enormous growth
intellectually and commercially across

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At 00:06:31,980, Character said: world, and it is a rediscovery also of
ancient ideas, and that included

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At 00:06:37,540, Character said: statues. At the time, the ancient Greek
Colossus of Rhodes is considered the

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At 00:06:43,520, Character said: tallest statue in history, at 108 feet,
or about 10 stories.

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At 00:06:48,580, Character said: By the 19th century, few structures of
any kind reached that height.

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At 00:06:54,120, Character said: Bartholdi is an...

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At 00:06:55,480, Character said: Extremely ambitious person, but it's not
for money. He's coming from sort of

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At 00:06:59,720, Character said: Mason culture that you didn't have any
kind of afterlife you were going to go

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At 00:07:03,820, Character said: to. Therefore, you have a lot of people
who have this idea of creating some

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At 00:07:08,280, Character said: wonder, something that will outlast them
and be their gift of immortality.

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At 00:07:13,840, Character said: Bartoldi's design shows an ancient
enslaved woman holding a lantern, a nod

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At 00:07:19,400, Character said: Egypt's recent abolition of slavery.

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At 00:07:22,060, Character said: The design that Bartholdi comes up with
for the Suez Canal statue is a first

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At 00:07:27,360, Character said: draft for the Statue of Liberty. There
are many similarities between the two, a

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At 00:07:32,020, Character said: female holding a torch, wearing a robe.

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At 00:07:35,040, Character said: At 148 feet, more than 13 stories, it
would dwarf the Greek Colossus to be

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At 00:07:41,980, Character said: the tallest statue in recorded history.

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At 00:07:50,340, Character said: Bartoli takes his unsolicited pitch to
the mastermind of the canal, famous

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At 00:07:55,840, Character said: French statesman Ferdinand de Lesseps.

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At 00:08:03,060, Character said: It's a terrible idea as far as de
Lesseps is concerned.

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At 00:08:05,620, Character said: Why does de Lesseps want Bartoli to come
in and somehow be the cherry on top of

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At 00:08:11,280, Character said: his great project?

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At 00:08:13,340, Character said: I'm late for a party.

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At 00:08:24,170, Character said: He's filled with despair that this is
not really going to happen, and he has

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At 00:08:28,890, Character said: go back to the drawing board, literally.

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At 00:08:31,670, Character said: This rejection alters the course of
history, putting Bartoldi on the path of

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At 00:08:37,409, Character said: project that will use over 50 million
pounds of metal and concrete to create

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At 00:08:43,510, Character said: figure that will greet over 175 million
visitors across 130 years and

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At 00:08:49,850, Character said: counting.

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At 00:08:55,850, Character said: But for now, he's at square one.

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At 00:09:09,310, Character said: Bertoldi thinks about the idea that
Laboulaye had once put out there and

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At 00:09:16,130, Character said: I'm going to America. I'm going to...