The original "Ferris" wheel was erected for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago at a cost of $385,000. The price to ride the wheel was 50 cents, the same price as it cost to enter ...

In late 1890, Daniel Burnham, the eminent architect charged with turning a boggy square mile of Chicago ... cars, each capable of holding 60 people. More than 100,000 parts went into Ferris ...

has bars in some of its enclosed cars. Chicago welcomed the very first Ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and its own giant wheel recently got a makeover, replacing small ...

Ferris constructed the world's first Ferris wheel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago ... for a wild ride in its swinging cars (as well as stationary ones) along Brooklyn's ...

George Pullman provided relief with his Palace Cars, which he marketed ... to seeing only the box scores. The Ferris wheel debuted at at Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition.

America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago ... Gale Ferris's gigantic wheel ride -- the first ...