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On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated. The statue was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi with structural help from Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (the guy behind the Eiffel Tower).

The episode’s recreation of Gustave Eiffel (center) ... He was busy with other projects, one of them being the armature for the Statue of Liberty, which was to be a gift to the U.S. from France.

At the same time, the engineer was also finishing the framework for the Statue of Liberty. Lady Liberty, a gift from France to the United States, was a relatively small job for Eiffel.