Moment de renversement – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Moment de renversement, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Moment de renversement
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This wood engraving is less a view of the statue than a technical diagram titled "Moment de renversement," or moment of overturning, a calculation engineers used to judge whether a tall structure could resist wind pressure without tipping. It appeared on August 1, 1883, as Figure 21 on page 468 of *Le génie civil*, a French engineering journal. At that time the statue was still being built in France, and its iron interior framework, designed with Gustave Eiffel's firm, drew close attention from engineers on both sides of the Atlantic.
| Created / published | 1883 Aug. 1. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Diagrams 1880-1890.Periodical illustrations 1880-1890.Wood engravings 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Le genie civil, 1883 Aug. 1, p. 468. Fig. 21. |
| Subjects | Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,963 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-166389 |
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