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 ...

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 ...

One of their number, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., ... More than 100,000 parts went into Ferris’ wheel, notably an 89,320-pound axle that had to be hoisted onto two towers 140 feet in the air.

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.

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 ...

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. graduated from RPI in 1881 and later invented the Ferris wheel in 1893. Chris Letchford, a professor and head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering ...

Information on Ferris wheel creator and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate, George W. G. Ferris Jr. is displayed during a carnival on the RPI campus to celebrate the university’s 200th ...

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.