The Ferris Wheel broke George Ferris. Those with sense enough to tread lightly in his footsteps largely escaped his fate. In the century and a quarter since the original Ferris Wheel, ...

In 1893 engineer George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. created an attraction for the world's fair in Chicago: A giant, steam-powered wheel that gently lifted passengers 250 feet in the air for a ...

The first Ferris wheel was built by George W. Ferris for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. It stood 264 feet tall and had 36 cars, each capable of holding 60 riders.

“Eighteen months ago George Ferris had a wheel in his head,” the Tribune marveled on June 22, 1893. “Yesterday it reared itself 300 feet into the air on slender shafts of steel and ...

George Ferris designed the very first Ferris Wheel, and Hoosier Luther Rice built it. Legend claims that pieces of that original Ferris Wheel were used to create a bridge in northern Indiana.

Another George from Pittsburgh, George Westinghouse, illuminated the entire fairgrounds with 250,000 lights. "The Ferris wheel was so popular, that when the fair closed, people didn't want the ...

George Ferris unveiled his giant wheel in 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair as a rival to the Eiffel Tower. At that time, it was the largest single piece of forged steel ever made --and a mind ...

George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. was born February 14, 1859 in Galesburg, Illinois, and died at the young age of 37 on November 22, 1896 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ferris wheels have been popular since George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., a 33-year-old engineer, designed one for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. More than a century later, we ...

KD Sunday Spotlight: The Ferris Wheel & Pittsburgh 02:19. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Many people may not know that a favorite ride at any fair or carnival was created right here in Pittsburgh.