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Ferris Wheel History

The ferris wheel is named after George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., who designed a 75-meter (250-foot) wheel for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois in 1893. It was designed as a rival to the Eiffel Tower, the centerpiece of the 1889 Paris exhibition. This first wheel weighed 2000 tonnes (2200 tons) and could carry 2,160 persons at a time. Its axle was the largest piece of steel yet cast at that time…

Pacific Wheel

LIVE stream of the wheel

FERRIS WHEELS around the world:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226483/Hauntingphotographs-reveal-Hurricane-Sandy-turned-Coney-Island-vibrantseaside-resort-world-country.html

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ktlincoln/coney-island-devastated-byhurricane-sandy

http://animalnewyork.com/2012/after-sandy-the-coney-islandwonder-wheel-spins-again/