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we fight
for freedom
we transform our dreams into the truth
our struggles will be calm a nation
America land have been venture
hot dogs jazz the elevator
skyscrapers this is the story
up the greatest innovation a ball modern
vertical city one
world-famous icon has come to symbolize
amazingly we very nearly didn't happen
beats 1885 New York City has a big problem
a magnificent gift with some assembly required
scattered across bed Lowes island in New York Harbor
in 214 crews on
they contain the largest statue in the Western world
it's been donated by the people of France to celebrate the Centenario
the Declaration of Independence I'm
built in Paris broken down into three hundred and fifty massive pieces
for the journey to america that's the problem the cost to reassembling
be astronomical money
New York does not have at least six other US cities are jockeying to give it
a home
New York City is in danger of losing
the Statue of Liberty
not if this man can help it joseph pulitzer
tenacious newspaper magnate immigrant
self-made man I'm he owns the biggest paper in the US
the New York world
and he's determined to keep Liberty in New York Harbor
through his chain of newspapers
pulitzer launches the biggest fundraising campaign
ever see
the it would be in a remarkable disgrace to New York City
and the American Republic to have transcended
the splendid here went out having provided even so much as a landing place
we must raise the money
more than a million people read pulitzer his papers
everyday enclosed please buy 25 cent
the content
which means
you the contents of the first jackpot you will find in calls
four dollars the money need to go to the circus with donations flooded in from
all across the country
rich and poor easternmost
pennies and nickels fives and tens
even thousands of dollars in all
a staggering 121,000 donations
more than enough
to keep this iconic statue in New York
i think is statue is not just a statue symbols really
matter I think they signify in a big way
in fact maybe they do more
then reams and reams and reams legislation
paper and print now
real work begins to hold
statue 150 feet high the pedestal will be the biggest
concrete structural
over 200 men work through ruling winter
complete
at the last to the cement dries
workers toss in their rooms silver dollars for good luck
next liberties enormous iron skillet
designed by stop by
filled with famous Eiffel Tower in Paris the skeleton is
151 people the pedestal
it's the hyde 30 story
now for the outer layer
wrapping around the skeleton are 60,000 pounds
school copper
the same is 32 times bigger than a king
movement size paid beat on-the-job training
three hundred feet year it is difficult
they need to fix 300 pieces of copper shell to the frame
with more than 300,000 bridges
paroled have over 4000 Square Garden
her outstretched arm is 42 people
a finger ways three-and-a-half scale match
after six months have hazardous construction
no freetown liberties 17
face is finally which did position
it's bigger than League sauna rush
it said sculptor Frederick August part
model the fix
it takes twenty five years
liberty to oxidize and turn green
a functioning lighthouse until 1902 statues official name is
liberty
lightning
at first a symbol of the Alliance and friendship between france
thirteen colonies in the American Revolution will come to represent
much more at the entrance to New York Harbor
the Statue of Liberty becomes a beacon to the world
well
later appalled by analyzing person base
celebrate America land bridge
give me time you cool your huddled masses yearning
23 free the wretched refuse
a beauty show send means
the homes tempest tossed to me
I'm lift mine
decide to calm
over the next two decades more than 12 million immigrants passed the Statue of
Liberty on their way to Ellis Island
first stop most americans
imagine what it took for someone
to leave eastern Poland or lithuanians or some
village in the mountains of northern Italy income
all way to this strange place with
nothing today
more than 100 million Americans can trace their roots back to ancestors
came through Ellis Island
you go back only
the 150 years in our 200
homes fifty-year history ninety-five percent
older people we're not here there during all rooms
they all came from someplace else so to me
to America represents the
the best to the human spirit a guidebook prepares arrivals
for a new life in a new world
forget your customs and ideals selected goal
and pursue it with all your might you will experience a bad time
but sooner or later you will achieve your goal don't take a moment's rest
right
and from Alice island a spread out across the country
for the most part Irish russians battalions to big cities
germans to the midwest scandinavians to farmland
at the dawn of the 20th century eventually
there will be more time
from 1880 to 1930
nearly 24 million immigrants arrive in the US
on bureau US history
by the early 20th century new
urban mega cities around america are bursting at the seams
look to expand direction up
but building these great towers demands a critical ingredient that's much too
expensive
steel one-man
changeable and with it the face of america
will risk everything almost
lose it all
BC 1872
andrew card
five foot three Scottish
shipbuilding
he's looking at the future
revolutionary way to make steel steel has been around for thousands
views
so expensive to produce it's always been a luxury
thousand years ago used in orientals
towards is even used to design June
but america stands at the brink of a new age
to build he needs to you
what's up it's the only material strong
towers that will touch the sky
an english bull makers showing carnegie on but simple method to produce
star
blast harder molten iron
carbon impurities Bernal
get the wonderment
Steve
for the first time you can be produced quickly did expense
if carnegie can use this Bessemer process to mass produce it
future
carnegie returns to the state's to Pittsburgh
start building the biggest steel plant in the world
it'll be larger than eighty football to massive gamble
carnegie wrist everything he's got mine
but only months under construction
disaster
catastrophic stock market
us
the economy is in freefall
he has to borrow even money barely scraped
August 1875
against all odds Carnegie's giant furnaces
already
steel production
inside
5 hard
3000
part
right
if it works people make carnegie richest man
there's a lot stay skies for
car
wash
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speech none if it can happen
if steel can't be mass-produced
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card
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me
so many Americans stories of success
are diligence
perseverance season of like
ball to is timing couldn't have been better
it was steal the build American cities it was deal with bill
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beginning the 20 century was one of the world's ok
Pittsburgh transport from
population triples
driven by steel
comes dealer transported across america the raw material
grandest double
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New York is a playground for super rich industrialist
fines
wildly extra they smoke cigars
their wives stuff
you today
land values are the highest in the world was only
place to go
by 1902 65 skyscrapers are being constructed
sees 1
it's cold walking the steel
this man is 30 stories above the street
first time this hike
harness or C
one slick
Tuesday
veterans are called fixtures
the novices are snakes
was working with them
deadline the old hans know just how dangerous
convenes
thing worsens today gun
to
girl get used to it or get killed
no hard hats just a two hundred
80 foot drop
a sudden gust of wind
sold
there appear eight hours a day meals when they cast
no bathroom breaks of
they're called Roughnecks European immigrants and Mohawk Indians
many were sailors in Britain workers to the Houston Heights
nigga balancing on the beams I think it to the lotto bravery I think it to the
bus
keel a lot you physically physically challenging
an awesome thingy below grade the stakes couldn't be higher
tourist they're willing to take the bay
is four dollars fight breakdrum
forman Williams stars sums up
it's dangerous job building skyscrapers is the nearest
peacetime equivalent from even to the occasional grim reality of an accident
were maimed
body even death remind us that we are fighting a war
construction against the forces of nature
he makes
many aren't so lucky to Roughnecks out of 5 die
or are disabled on the job whether it's a builder or an architect
or whatever whoever had the imagination
to design and build some love the great structures
of New York I'm inspired by in 1902
New York this is what the future looks like the Flatiron Building
its triangular footprint determined by the intersection of three streets
to
the steel frame the outside can be hung in Section like this
now the wall
pic way
steel
its sole radical
when people first see they think it will blow over and killed
a lawsuit is filed claiming
wins focus by the Flatirons extreme shape damage in nearby shop
today it when Obama
inside
the other
but hours
rise
be a
before it the tallest buildings stop mostly
five floors no more walking up stairs now
the sky's the limit for the first time
the higher the floor
the rent are you think it's up fairly humble invention
bod are when Otis invented the first really safe
elevator enabled the growth in the modern city where people could come in
build much taller buildings get a much higher density people
and sure enough by the end of the 19th century
the urban population has increased 87 times
in chicago alone in just ten News
build 50 steel frame buildings
in 20 population more than doubles
to almost 1.7 American said
explode
but for many
living in the shadow abuse new towers
proven harder and building in america in eighteen
crime and poverty you're right from the streets
but these Mavericks about to make a difference
gangsters murders the use fear
are on the streets new tabloid newspapers
splash crime all over the front pages
in Chicago you can rent a gun by the house in the future
catalogued you can buy one for twelve dollars
New York a policeman finds a list murder
gangster is free punches
two dollars nose and Joe broke ten dollars
beer chewed off fifteen dollars the big job
a hundred bucks and %ah
detective bureau chief thomas burns follows his own said
through
very
among his message is a technique as detectives call
the third degree
first-degree persuasion
second-degree intimidation
third-degree
pain
in four years
burns claims he's arrested 3300 criminals
he saw the biggest ties to the central nearly a three million dollar manhattan
bank robbery reporters called him the greatest crime buster
in the history of the new york city police force
is very manner
size M
his menacing shoulders apps park at his voice
pickpockets for teachers Weber practice see
unscrupulous roles crooks are now free to their shadows
nearly double lives but tracking down criminals
isn't easy there's no official I P
birth certificates driver's license it for criminals known in one town
just moves to the next criminals
are anonymous burns is tackling this problem head on
and bringing police work into a new this
is his rogues gallery mug shot some 7,000 known
lawbreakers using photography
to identify criminals will change detective work forever
royal alias
lack the sheeple syrup
the mug shots are distributed to police departments around the country
but these are more than just pictures burns is also building
psychological profiles criminals reference
minor becomes from a very good family
it's a pity his this
is the first attempt to create a national prime register
the city as diverse as ours
is going to have a significant crime problem
that you've got to be on top of even today
mug shots still catch criminals 12 million are taking every year nationwide
that's more than the entire population
noble Ohio and it all began with the Rogues Gallery
for a hundred twenty years ago
well
any questions but crime isn't the only problem plaguing
urban streets in many cities
slums are reaching epidemic proportions
multiple families crammed into one small
human waste pours into the streets alleys and open
for you people were crowded in
they were windowless tenement sometimes you had no internal plumbing to spread
these in the basement in the backyard and the Lower East Side during these
years with
single most crowded place in the entire world
Jacob Reese
Danish immigrant crime reporter
photographer
he gets leads for stories from Chief Inspector burns
now he's about to expose
the hell love tennis
Jacob Reese knows what it's like to be poor fifteen years ago
he lost his job in a stock market crash Ste
it's midnight but Greece has a new technology that will change the public
perception of poverty
forever an explosive powder
that produces enough like to photograph in the dark
this
the first ever photographed subs long line
it shocks millions
ladies and gentleman
my name is Jay could be weeks this is how
other have though and I in New York said
magazines refused to print his work cerise puts on his own magic lantern
shows
his mission to show the nation's wealthy
something they've never seen before filled and desperation on their doorstep
the walk
mine dead
carried out this euro 5
baby car
what he demonstrated was over as another reality they're all their prosperity
didn't trickle down forward to Obama there were some
the pourable living conditions in this country
was not just forced to confront those conditions
but then was moved to begin to deal with them Res Publica
as his pictures in a book called how the other half lives
people sell more than 28 million copies
within two decades the worst New York slums are torn down
tournament sell at auction for as little as a dollar
reaches campaigning
forces all New York schools to build playgrounds
landlords to install toilets inside apartments not outside
it is the first step tackling the slums
but his city's keep on growing
an even bigger challenge remains
in new york alone nearly forty thousand die in one year
from disease has a
this
bill
one clean crusader is about to change
everything 1895 our major cities are drowning in Phil
120,000 courses
dumb half a million pounds maneuver into the New York streets
every day
wagons are blocked by three-foot high miles of human animal works
into this world steps a man on a white horse
Colonel George where
Civil War veteran legendary sewerage
here apostle a plan us he's the head of New York sanitation department
the city's thanks with the emanations purifying
organic matter black runs
seems smiled on every the crowded streets
veritable L
wearing recruit an army 2000 sanitation workers in white uniforms
some
dismiss him as a crack
they call his men white doc
wearing means business tons of garbage
normally dumped into the river is recycled
ash becomes landfill on Rikers Island
organic waste boiled oil
group where is America's first
Eagle warrior his men clean 433 miles Street death rates decline
water quality improves wearing save the lives
house
the measures spread across america just 16 years after krona wearing
powerful cities have waste collection and it is not just weeks
by 1907 every large city in the nation
as
by 1909 there are forty two thousand
forty miles
the battle against filled crime and poverty begun
but one of the city's greatest innovations still
simpson's one-man will change
urban landscape Menlo Park New Jersey
1879 Thomas
edison inventors entrepreneur
show
he was taken out of school support that stock
from becoming synonymous inventions that define the modern era
he pushes his team harp
24/7 one of the world's first
R&D it will generate more than a pound
america still like the night in the dangerous Flickr
candles gas and kerosene edison
thinks he has a better idea
if you can get a filament to burn slowly in a vacuum the electric light
Clinton
medicine locks himself in his life doesn't sleep for days
I'm
the stakes are high
his backers have sunk 130 thousand dollars into his research
millions in today's money he claimed to have gone through six thousand materials
from are the plant world alone in his search for the
the perfect filament
toward land check spruce
I'm beard fish
threat
team
box
standing on the porch
them
something extraordinary happens
code
a piece of carbonized card
burns for 300 hours
going to change the way people live forever
watershed does is nothing worse
the to banish the darkness I think the media
think what that means to daily life
New Years Eve
1879 at his shows off his
French thousands of people flocked was live to see the future
pictured the Pennsylvania Railroad
arranges special training comedy
Thomas added
invented the Apple iPod that electric light pole when im
magical must've been unit to sit there and just all the Sun
like without a match without care senior Cassie just flip a switch in
lie
in just two years edison builds more than 5,000 power plants
generating electricity for cities like New York Boston
Chicago Detroit Saint Louis
over the next five years he builds over a hundred 27,000
by 1902 18 like
the impact is massive sports
and retain factories stores
all can now operate at night and as electricity comes to the city's
more people ride with by 1900 nearly four million women are working
USD in just forty years
that figure has more than quadrupled
urban factories are pounding out 75 percent overall
consumer products in the US
places like this modern steel frame buildings
with with all the latest technology
holders electric
bill a little Singh so image
but packing so many people into told
disaster waiting to happen
well
United States
is hurtling modern symbolized by megacities
rising up all across the comp by 1909
Americans are spending nearly $23 billion dollars a year
on many this factories producing
12,000 garments known sure
waves the latest fashion for the working woman
New York City march twenty-fifth
1911 4:45 p.m.
the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory cool
260 girls work
monster
you
someone we don't know
tosses a match maybe a cigarette and
this crap
Eva Harris a seamstress smells burning
production manager Samuel Bernes team
grabs one of the three fire pails
by
ready spread
there's a mad dash for the eighth mark it is too narrow
only one at a time can pass through it's been designed that way
so their bags can be checked for storm fabric
is a fire hose
but it's not working
the only way to warm the floors above
is from the switchboard two floors up on the 10th floor
10
home wire there's a fire she dropped the phone and runs to get help
the message never reaches the ninth floor
Samuel Bernes doing races up the main stairs to help the 160 workers trapped
there
but blocking the front door there's a barrel
mode
on the ninth floor flames already shooting from the walls
win
the girls on nine rushed to the fire escape but it's locked
only to escape route to left on the ninth floor the elevator
in the middle fires
Kate Weiner makes it to the elevator door she's lost her sister
everyone's knocking crime
have the ability to come suddenly the elevator came
and the girls rushed in
I was searching for my sister Rose but I couldn't find her
the flames were coming toward being left behind
I felt the elevator was reading lifetime
she's the last person to get to the last
elevator
more than 100 girls are left behind
died
the only escape route left the middle fire escape
but it collapsed
firemen arrived with the biggest liar in New York City
it's thirty feet commercial
458 year the girls
trapped on the ninth floor are a box
desperation the job
5:15 p.m.
the entire blues his old
in less than half an hour 146 people died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
fire
is a trial
but the owners walk free
it remains the deadliest workplace disaster in New York City history
until September 11th 2001 but some good
does come out a bit this dramatic tragedy sparked a wave of reform so you
begin to get new restrictions
and a new conversation about out what to do to prevent this kind of tragedy from
happening
by it did not stop of course that tragedy itself
use
force management to take responsibility for the lives of their work the Life
Safety Code
now used in all 50 states is a direct result
this fire its wide doors now open outwards and public buildings
were automatic sprinkler systems multiple
exist down the law
the US in the modern city grew up together typically use
enormous and the mega one of america's
greatest inventions
and