A Ferris Wheel has been installed at Midway State Park in Maple Springs. The same model ride was at Midway in the 1970s. P-J photo by Eric Tichy Midway State Park has installed a new Ferris Wheel, ...

The once 60-foot-tall Ferris wheel was a Times Square staple for years, but it now serves a very different purpose When Toys “R” Us closed the doors of its flagship store in New York’s Times ...

Kristin Gjerdset, 49, of West Allis sat on the ground in the Wisconsin State Fair’s House of Moo, staring intently at a cow resting before her. On her lap, she balanced a canvas; in her hand, a ...

William Somers, the man who invented the Ferris wheel, thought the thing was boring. A member of a prominent family in Asbury Park, Somers dreamed up his moving wheel in the winter of 1888.

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 150-foot-tall ferris wheel installed in Golden Gate Park to commemorate its 150th anniversary has made $9.4 million in ticket sales since its installation, but San Francisco gets to keep just a ...