Spirit of Communication
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Spirit of Communications is the formal name for a statue originally called Genius of Electricity that has been the symbol of AT&T (and also the former Western Electric) since 1914, and that is often called by the nickname Golden Boy. In 2009, the statue was relocated to AT&T's current corporate headquarters in downtown Dallas, Texas, USA. The official name of the image commissioned by Western Electric to be fashioned into a statue was originally The Genius of Electricity. Commissioned in 1914, it was sculpted by Evelyn Beatrice Longman. The work was completed in 1916 and hoisted to the roof of…mehr

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Spirit of Communications is the formal name for a statue originally called Genius of Electricity that has been the symbol of AT&T (and also the former Western Electric) since 1914, and that is often called by the nickname Golden Boy. In 2009, the statue was relocated to AT&T's current corporate headquarters in downtown Dallas, Texas, USA. The official name of the image commissioned by Western Electric to be fashioned into a statue was originally The Genius of Electricity. Commissioned in 1914, it was sculpted by Evelyn Beatrice Longman. The work was completed in 1916 and hoisted to the roof of AT&T Corporate Headquarters at 195 Broadway in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City. It weighs over 16 tons and is 24 feet (7.3 m) in height with wings that extend nine feet from the body. It is cast in bronze and covered with over 40,000 pieces of gold leaf.