In (I think) the first edition of Zumdahl's chemistry textbook, there was a great summary of some of the things they had to do to preserve the statue, and it went beyond just repairing the skin.<p>The wiki article (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation-restoration_of_the_Statue_of_Liberty" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation-restoration_of_th...</a>) has a lot of it, but IIRC after they installed stainless steel, at some point they passed electricity through it, which had the effect of making it susceptible to corrosion, and then had to do something else to restore its resistance.<p>I wish I could find it now, as it was a fascinating read, but I can't see anything easily online.
This is an issue with bronze statues. Washington, D.C. has many of them. The ones at Memorial Bridge are occasionally cleaned and polished, but most of the others are not and have turned green. New York City has some statues polished, some not, depending on who owns them. The Prometheus statue at Rockefeller Center and the Charging Bull at Bowling Green are kept shined up.
The statue was crowdfunded<p>From Wikipedia:<p>> Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, started a drive for donations to finish the project and attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar (equivalent to $30 in 2021)
I’m currently reading the book this site referenced, “The idea factory” a wonderful account on Bell Labs with portraits of Shockley, Shannon and the other fathers of the information age.
Link is currently down; here's an archived copy: <a href="https://archive.is/PJlEX" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/PJlEX</a> (missing pictures, unfortunately).
What a strange article to see Nick featured on HN.<p>Whilst this is interesting, Nick maintains a fantastic website full of interesting information about telephone software, antennas and all sorts of fascinating telephony articles.
<i>When she was delivered, the statue had a copper colour like you’d see in Copper piping, not the green patina we see today</i><p>Could you have imagined.