to as Spirit of Electricity.

The statue weighs more than 14.5 tonnes (16 short tons) and is 7.3 m tall, with wings that extend 2.7 m from its body. It is cast in bronze and covered with more than 12,500 pieces of gold leaf.

Sometime in the mid-1930s, AT&T changed the name of the statue (and the image) to The Spirit of Communication. It continued to stand atop the 195 Broadway building until the early 1980s. In 1984, AT&T moved to a new postmodern headquarters building at 550 Madison Avenue

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