About Ferris wheel

About Ferris wheel It’s possible to say that Ferris wheel appeared thanks to Gustave Eiffel because trying to go better than him and his Eiffel Tower George Ferris designed a big wheel. The wheel was built in Chicago, 1893. The diameter of the wheel (75 m / 0.05 miles) was rather big even according to the nowadays criterion. It had 36 cabins with 20 seats and 40 standing rooms. The wheel was moved with 2 steam engines with power 1000 horse forces each of them. Nowadays this wheel is called “Ferris wheel”. And it is considered a battlefield of all record-hunters.


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