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Book Synopsis The 50 Biggest Ferris Wheels Ever Built by : Nick Weisenberger
Download or read book The 50 Biggest Ferris Wheels Ever Built written by Nick Weisenberger and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The race to build the largest observation wheel is on! Ferris wheels have been around for over one hundred years but have only just recently begun climbing to new heights. The classic Ferris wheel can be found towering over almost every amusement park and carnival midway. Today, these giant, high tech observation wheels are becoming status symbols for cities around the world. The race to build the biggest is heating up. Who invented the Ferris wheel? How do they work? Where are the most unique Ferris wheels found? The 50 Biggest Ferris Wheels Ever Built answers all of these questions and more. So sit down, strap in, don't rock the gondola, and let's roll!
Book Synopsis Ferris Wheels by : Norman D. Anderson
Download or read book Ferris Wheels written by Norman D. Anderson and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "June 21, 1893 dawned clear in Chicago. By mid-afternoon hundreds of invited guests and curious spectators crowded around a small platform on the Midway Plaisance at the World's Columbian Exposition. Promptly at 3:30 the official party took their places and following the speeches, George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. blew a small, golden whistle. The giant observation wheel was officially open to all those who wanted a bird's eye view of the fair and the never-to-be-forgotten thrill of riding the Ferris Wheel." "The miracle of engineering Ferris had built in less than six months was 264 feet tall, taller than any building existing at the time, and the 36 cars each held up to 60 passengers. Before the Exposition closed, nearly a million and a half people paid 50 cents for a twenty-minute ride on "The Eighth Wonder of the World." And since then, amusement wheels worldwide that carry people up, over the top, and down, have been called Ferris wheels." "But the story does not begin or end with the star attraction at the Columbian Exposition. The idea of the Ferris wheel may be as old as the water wheel and written descriptions and drawings of pleasure wheels go back at least four centuries. And during the last hundred years, the Ferris wheel has become the universal symbol of the outdoor amusement industry and the undisputed "Queen of the Midway." Along the way, there have been dozens of experiments with design and construction - early portable wheels by Strobel, the Condermans, Sullivan and others; one-of-a-kind wheels like Schnitzler's Asbury Park wheel with a tower and Stubb's water-turned wheel at Electric Park in Waterloo, Iowa; giant wheels in London, Blackpool, Vienna, Paris and more recently in Japan; rides that in many ways resemble a Ferris wheel, but with the crowd-attracting names like the Double Whirl, Electric Star and Swooper. All of these builders and rides plus others are described in Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by : Kathryn Gibbs Davis
Download or read book Mr. Ferris and His Wheel written by Kathryn Gibbs Davis and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the engineer George Ferris invented and constructed the amusement park ride that bears his name for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Book Synopsis Ferris Wheels by : Norman D. Anderson
Download or read book Ferris Wheels written by Norman D. Anderson and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anderson (North Carolina State University) is clearly obsessed with the Ferris Wheel. He describes the conception and construction of the first example--at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Imitators and variations are described and illustrated with period photos and patent drawings. An appendix contains 115 pages of patent drawings. A charming, unique book (that will win no graphics awards). Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Western Druggist written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cassier's Magazine by : Henry Harrison Suplee
Download or read book Cassier's Magazine written by Henry Harrison Suplee and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ferris Wheel! written by Dani Sneed and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the ridicule he received for his concept of this ride and the many obstacles he faced to complete his plans, inventor George Ferris succeeded in doing what many thought impossible and successfully presented the first Ferris wheel to amazed tourists at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893.
Book Synopsis George Ferris, what a Wheel! by : Barbara Lowell
Download or read book George Ferris, what a Wheel! written by Barbara Lowell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the engineer who invented the Ferris wheel describes the ambitious ideas that inspired him to build the largest wheel in the world for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
Book Synopsis Secrets of the Sideshows by : Joe Nickell
Download or read book Secrets of the Sideshows written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue. The secrets behind such daring feats as fire-eating and sword swallowing and bizarre exhibitions of human oddities as "Alligator Boys" and "Gorilla Girls" still remain, only grudgingly if ever given up by performers and carnival professionals. Working alongside the performers, Joe Nickell blows the lid off these mysteries of the midway. The author reveals the structure of the shows, specific methods behind the performances, and the showmen's tactics for recruiting performers and attracting crowds. He also traces the history of such spectacles, from ancient Egyptian magic and street fairs to the golden age of P.T. Barnum's sideshows. With revealing insight into the personal lives of the men and women billed as freaks, Nickell unfolds the captivating story of the midway show.
Book Synopsis The Man Who Invented the Ferris Wheel by : Dani Sneed
Download or read book The Man Who Invented the Ferris Wheel written by Dani Sneed and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cassier's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of George Ferris by : Jeff Geissler
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of George Ferris written by Jeff Geissler and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Ferris Jr. designed and built the first steel Ferris Wheel made to carry passengers; it was erected in Jackson Park, Illinois. The park was a desert of sand and stagnant pools that would be transformed by dedicated and talented architects and engineers into the greatest and largest fair the world had ever known. It would outshine the Paris Expo and be the perfect icon of American ingenuity, led by the Ferris Wheel.
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Book Synopsis Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper by : John Albert Sleicher
Download or read book Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper written by John Albert Sleicher and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Review of Reviews by : William Thomas Stead
Download or read book The Review of Reviews written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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