What happened in the 1880s?
🎡 First Ferris Wheel Concept (1890): Recreational technology and the culture of entertainment.
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Further Reading
The First Ferris Wheel - Chicago History Museum (chicagohistory.org)
Ferris wheel - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
Chicago's Ferris wheel story (architecture.org)
The history of Ferris wheels: What goes around comes around (cbsnews.com)
A Flight on the 1893 Ferris Wheel - NEH-Edsitement (neh.gov)
The Brief History of the Ferris Wheel - Smithsonian Magazine (smithsonianmag.com)
Defunctland: A Roundabout History of the Ferris Wheel - YouTube (youtube.com)
The 1893 World's Fair and the First Ferris Wheel - NEH-Edsitement (neh.gov)
THE FIRST FERRIS WHEEL | INVENT IT! - Chicago History Museum (chicagohistory.org)
History of the Centennial Wheel at Navy Pier (navypier.org)