In late 1890, Daniel Burnham, the eminent architect charged with turning a boggy square mile of Chicago ... original, daring and unique.” One of their number, George Washington Gale Ferris ...

The “Ferris Wheel” lasted longer than its creator’s life, fortunes and reputation – but only marginally. It remained in Chicago during the decade immediately after the World’s Fair ...

Ferris constructed the world's first Ferris wheel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago ... to the Industrial Revolution. The original Ferris wheel was destroyed in 1906 ...