America hosted the World's ... Gale Ferris's gigantic wheel ride -- the first Ferris wheel ever built. This was a direct response to Gustave Eiffel's tower for the Paris fair of 1889.
Photo Provided The BIG wheel, a highlight of the 1892-93 World’s Fair and Exposition held at Chicago, was built by George Washington Gale Ferris ... November 5, 1893. For rates of fare ...
The Midway Sky Eye, North America’s largest traveling Ferris wheel, debuted in Tampa and returns every February.
The mile-long Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the closest an amusement seeker came to a sure thing in 1893 ... on George Ferris's 264-foot bicycle-wheel-in-the-sky.