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The Man Who Invented the Ferris Wheel: The Genius of George Ferris by Dani Sneed

The Man Who Invented the Ferris Wheel: The Genius of George Ferris

Dani Sneed
48 pages
Enslow Publishers
Sep 2013
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George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. was an American engineer. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, where he was a member of the Rensselaer Society of Engineers, in the class of 1881 with a degree in Civil Engineering. He was made a member of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumni Hall of Fame in 1998. He is most famous for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.
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