from the dishwasher to the electric chair. All sorts of innovators and inventions were introduced at the World's Fair. But the star of the show was the Ferris Wheel. - [Paul] As the Ferris Wheel ...

“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 ...

We're talking, of course, about the Ferris wheel. It's the 131st anniversary of the World's Columbian Exposition and there are so many Pittsburgh ties. "The organizers of the World's Fair in ...

It’s a carnival and fair staple… the Ferris wheel! George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. graduated from RPI in 1881 and later invented the Ferris wheel in 1893. Chris Letchford, a professor and ...