“Too fragile,” he said. Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel. In fact, a carpenter named William Somers was building 50-foot wooden wheels at Asbury Park, Atlantic City and ...

One of the guys was working on the next phase of the inexplicably misguided plan, removing some heavy counterweights hanging under the ferris wheel, when a young woman shows up with a dosimeter ...

A Google search looking for information about the first American Ferris Wheel is emphatic. The original "Ferris" wheel was erected for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago at a cost ...