JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 217
In the continuing thread of Empty and Blank and Missing People we find perhaps the largest and heaviest of all Blank People–the superstructure of the Statue of Liberty. This woodcut appeared in the 13 June 1885 issue of The Scientific American, and shows the empty nest for Auguste Bartholdi’s “Liberty Enlightening the World”. For an empty thing it weighed quite a lot, over 400,000 pounds of iron plate and the awaited repousse copper skin. It was the tallest free-standing statue in history, but since (and only recently) has been eclipsed (see below for a short list of the tallest modern statues).
