Editing George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (section)

=The Wheel=
With the World's Columbia Exhibition of 1893 being held in Chicago and rapidly approaching, the event's directors wished to outdo their French counterparts, who in 1889 had erected the Eifel Tower. Responding to the challenge, '''Ferris''' sent in a grand plan for a spinning wheel that would lift riders in cars around its length, all while being structurally sound against the winds of the great lakes, possibly inspired by the '''Burdett Iron Works Wheel''' to out do "...Out-Eifel Eifel". 

Even though the planners were a bit skeptical about the safety of the wheel, gathering support and, more crucially, local investment, he was able to get the wheel built. With 36 cars, each with 40 chairs, and a twenty-minute run time, the wheel wowed its audience, carrying roughly 38000 passengers daily. 

The wheel itself lived until 1906, bringing in an estimated 2.5 million passengers throughout its lifetime before it was finally demolished. Ferris claimed the exhibition management had failed to pay him and his investors the roughly $750,000 profit his wheel produced and spent the next two years in litigation to settle.


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''Wheel in Construction''
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''Completed Wheel''
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