The Man Who Invented the Ferris Wheel: The Genius of George Ferris (Genius Inventors and Their Great Ideas)
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Author(s)
Dani Sneed
Publisher
Enslow Elementary
ISBN / ASIN
146440206X
ISBN-13
9781464402067
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#2,994,186
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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.
