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	Ferris wheel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is named after Pittsburgh, PA native George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
		The earliest ancestor of the Ferris wheel is the Ups-and-Downs, a crude, hand-turned device, which dates back at least to the 17th century and is still in use in some parts of the world.
		Some people consider Ferris wheels to be a distinct category from observation wheels, of which the London Eye is currently the largest example in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferris_Wheel (695 words)

	The Man Who Invented the Wheel, and Paid the Price
		George was just five years old when his parents moved the family from sedate and affluent Galesburg, Illinois to wild and woolly Nevada Territory.
		In 1880, the Ferris family moved to California, taking up residence in Riverside, where George was one of the earliest settlers and founders.
		Gale, the Presbyterian clergyman with whom Silvanus formed a lifelong friendship that led to the founding of Knox College.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~wanda/ferriswheel.html (3630 words)

	NSLA - Historical Myth a Month - The George Washington Gale Ferris House--Or Is It?
		What many people don't know is that the inventor of the famous amusement ride, George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., spent a portion of his childhood in Carson City and the house at 311 W. Third Street in which he lived still stands.
		moved his family, including five-year-old George Jr., from Galesburg, Illinois to Carson Valley, Nevada Territory, in the summer of 1864.
		Gregory Sears, and not George Ferris, was responsible for the construction of the house at 311 W. Third Street.
	dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/nsla/archives/myth/myth53.htm (1053 words)

	American National Biography Online
		(14 Feb. 1859-22 Nov. 1896), civil engineer and builder of the Ferris Wheel, was born in Galesburg, Illinois, the son of George Washington Gale Ferris and Martha Edgerton Hyde Ferris, farmers.
		Ferris family archival papers are at the College Archives, Seymour Library, Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. Ferris family genealogical research papers, including significant records on the Ferris Wheel and patent litigation, have been assembled by Lora C. Little and are held at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library in New York City.
		Ferris himself used his genius as a businessman to secure the concession in late 1892 after a lengthy negotiation with the board of directors of the exposition, to raise the financing during a period of general national depression in 1893, and to organize the manufacture of parts by numerous companies in the East and Midwest.
	www.anb.org /articles/13/13-02643-article.html (1497 words)

	Ferris wheel
		(Ferris wheel; includes biography of wheel's inventor, George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.)
		George W. Ferris, a U.S. engineer from Galesburg, Ill., designed and built the first such wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1892.
		A Ferris wheel in Yokohama, Japan, is 344 ft (105 m) high; the largest in the United States is the Texas Star in Dallas, at 212 ft (65 m).
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0818543.html (347 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Columns: Mr. Smarty Pants
		Ferris died just three years later at the age of 37, a poor and saddened man who never knew that his name would become a household word.
		built the world's first Ferris Wheel for the World Colombian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.
		Each of the five rings in the Audi logo stands for one of five different car companies that was merged to form Audi years ago.
	austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-01-07/cols_smartypants.html (141 words)

	Ayla
		George Ferris was born on February 14,1859 in Galesburg Illinois.
		George Ferris was the creator of the the Ferris Wheel for the Chicago World's Colombian Exposition in 1893.
		George said he de-signed the ferris wheel while he was out to dinner.
	www.springfield.k12.vt.us /schools/union/ayla.htm (174 words)

	Text Only Version--Three Historic Nevada Cities: Carson City, Reno and Virginia City--A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., who became the most prominent figure associated with the house, was a young boy when the family moved from their homestead in Carson Valley to this house in Carson City.
		Ferris was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1859.
		Reno architect George A. Ferris designed the mansion and the construction bid was awarded at $22,700.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/nevada/text.htm (16405 words)

	Chicago, Illinois
		Washington Park, connected to Jackson Park by the Midway Plaisance and west of the University of Chicago, it features the DuSable Museum of African American History as well as several sculptures, among other normal park amenities.
		Navy Pier, located right north of the Loop, it is, literally, a pier that is home to a Ferris wheel and many shopping/entertainment venues that tends to be very touristy in nature.
		In 1983, Harold Washington became the first African American mayor of Chicago.
	uncover.us /en/wikipedia/c/ch/chicago__illinois.html (5775 words)

	Ferris wheel’s inventor raised in Nevada (printable version)
		Nevadans take great pride that the inventor of the Ferris wheel, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., spent much of his childhood in Carson Valley and Carson City.
		A Ferris wheel known as the Riesenrad (“Giant Wheel” in German), comparable in size to the Blackpool wheel, opened in June 1897 in Vienna, Austria at the Prater amusement park.
		Ferris left no memoirs or other clues about the inspiration for the wheel’s design prior to his death in Pittsburgh on Nov. 22, 1896.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=47319 (771 words)

	Roller Coaster Almanac
		November 22-- 1896: George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., engineer and businessman responsible for building the Ferris Wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition, dies at the age of 37.
		January 17-- 1929: William George Bean, one of the founding partners of the Blackpool Pleasure Beach, dies of pneumonia aboard the {SS Arduna} and is buried at sea near the Canary Islands.
		Ferris was the engineer, entrepreneur, and showman responsible for the Ferris Wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, 1893.
	www.talkabouttravelling.com /group/rec.parks.theme/messages/27609.html (14512 words)

	US and Canadian Inventors and Inventions - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Ferris Wheel was invented by the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bridge-builder George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
		George Washington Carver (1865?-1943) was an American scientist, educator, humanitarian, and former slave.
		George Eastman (1854-1932) was an American inventor who made many improvements in photography.
	www.zoomschool.com /inventors/us.shtml (15172 words)

	Caller.com: Local News
		The Ferris wheel became the symbol of the failed Landry's deal that was planned for the T-heads in Corpus Christi Bay.
		The Ferris wheel at Navy Pier, on Lake Michigan just east of Chicago's downtown, at 150 feet, is smaller than the original but was built to closely resemble Ferris's creation.
		Holmgreen said he was surprised to see a Ferris wheel included as part of the TRT proposal made public this week.
	www.caller.com /ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_4438624,00.html (1123 words)

	Gale, George Washington on Encyclopedia.com
		WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President George W. Bush, seated, signs the Everglades Protection Act as his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, left, and Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior, second from left, wat
		WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President George W. Bush, seated, presents a pen used to sign the Everglades Protection Act to his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
		Charles Spencer: "me gusta mÃ¡s mi palacio que el castillo de "Harry Potter": se emborrachaban y apostaban en el funeral de su madre; los paparazzi son la peor lacra de Inglaterra para el noveno y templado conde Spencer hermano de la difunta Lady Di y primo de la familia de George Washington.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gale-G1eo.asp (1103 words)

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	mental_floss library
		February 14 later became known as Ferris Wheel Day, to celebrate the birthday of its inventor (born in Galesburg, Illinois on 2/14/1859).
		And when George came up with the idea for the Ferris Wheel, my friend, he didn't mess around.
		Unlike many amusement park rides that started out tiny and grew as time and technology assisted, Ferris came right out of the gate with a monster.
	www.mentalfloss.com /archives/archive2003-02-14.htm (236 words)

	New York Times Trivia Quiz #419
		George Washington Gale Ferris unveiled his huge observation wheel for the 1893 Columbian Exposition held in what city?
		George Washington Campbell was an American horticulturalist who devoted his energies to trying to develop the perfect variety of what fruit?
		What was the surname of the George Washington who was hired in 1842 by Tsar Nicholas I as the consulting engineer for a railroad between St. Petersburg and Moscow, and was also the father of a famous painter?
	www.nytimes.com /ref/crosswords/trivia/quiz419.html (223 words)

	1859 - Psychology Central
		February 16 - George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
		January 28 - The city of Olympia is incorporated in the state of Washington in the United States of America.
		October 16 - John Brown raids Harper's Ferry in Virginia, the signal for a general slave rebellion.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/1859 (1356 words)

	As I Read It, "p", Wm.Tienken
		The original Ferris Wheel, that had many imitators, was erected for the last time at the Louisiana Purchase in St. Louis in 1904, after that it was abandoned and later dynamited in 1906.
		George Lucas played 007 in On Her Majesty's Secret Service that was budgeted at $7 million and grossed over $80 million worldwide.
		Although George had to fight with 20th Century Fox for his vision of Graffiti, he did and was a box office hit.
	members.aol.com /asireadit/p.html (12030 words)

	From the Chunnel to the Ferris Wheel
		Irritated, Burnham excoriated the engineers at a banquet in 1891 "for not having met the expectations of the people." One of his auditors was George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., founder of a firm that tested iron and steel.
		At 250 feet in diameter, the Ferris Wheel at the expo remains one of the largest ever built.
		It stood on the fair's Midway Plaisance, "the concession and amusement area of the fair that gave its name to midways at all subsequent fairs," Petroski adds in a detail typical of his charming historical disquisitions.
	www.cs.ucla.edu /~klinger/chunnel.html (654 words)

	Solar Powered Ferris Wheel
		But Edison is unaware of any other Ferris wheel--named after George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., who created the engineering marvel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition--that spin courtesy of the sun's rays, said Steve Taylor, Edison's manager of the Santa Monica project.
		Converting the Ferris wheel to operate on a 50-kilowatt photovoltaic system will cost about $365,000 and is being funded by the California Energy Commission, the U.S. Department of Energy and Edison Technology Solutions as part of a program to bring solar energy to cities.
		The Pacific Park Ferris wheel is the fourth "solar neighborhood" project installed by Edison Technology Solutions, a subsidiary of Rosemead-based Edison International() and an affiliate of Southern California Edison.
	home.earthlink.net /~bdewey/EV_solarferris.html (628 words)

	Rensselaer.MAG/March '99- At Rensselaer
		When the French, who dominated European civil engineering, responded first with a Trojan Horse known as the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor three years later, then followed that with the spectacular 300-meter-tall Eiffel Tower of 1889, Rensselaer graduate George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
		Like his father who designed it, Rensselaerean Washington A. Roebling (Class of 1857) knew that the Brooklyn Bridge he and his employees were building wasn't just a conveyance between Brooklyn and Manhattan Island.
		It was also a statement, a declaration that the upstart United States had emerged from its coonskin cap days to build urban monuments that evoked the grandeur of classical Rome.
	www.rpi.edu /dept/NewsComm/Magazine/March99/designing_america4.html (463 words)

	A Timeline -- THE HISTORY OF THE FERRIS WHEEL
		1904 – Ferris’ wheel was rebuilt for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
		1900 – Due to his overwhelming debt, Ferris began to take offers for his wheel.
		The idea of a turning wheel that moved objects has been around for hundreds of years.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h364proj/sprg_98/lynch/timeline.htm (392 words)

	American Profile: 4/6/2003 - 4/12/2003: Tidbits
		NEVADA—The inventor of the Ferris Wheel, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., spent part of his childhood in Carson City.
		It’s said that he gained the idea for the Ferris Wheel while watching the large waterwheel near Cradlebaugh Bridge on the Carson River.
		The Pulaski ax combines two tools in one—it has both an ax head and a sharp grub hoe, and is ideal for clearing vegetation.
	www.americanprofile.com /issues/20030406/20030406we_2947.asp (411 words)

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	Encyclopedia :: 1896
		August 16 - Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike.
		January 20 - George Burns, American comedian (d.
		August 27 - The shortest war in the world - 9.02 - 9.40 between Britain and Zanzibar
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /1896 (1527 words)

	The Memphis Flyer: Books - February 5, 1998
		In “The Ferris Wheel,” he shows how the Eiffel Tower begat the Ferris wheel.
		As the story goes, officials involved in the World’s Columbian Exposition to be held in 1893 in Chicago were determined to outdo the Eiffel Tower, for America’s pride was at stake.
		Remaking the World does pick up when Petroski delivers those adventures he promised.
	www.memphisflyer.com /backissues/issue468/book468.htm (1115 words)

	Local Historic Designations
		Ferris House (Former George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
		1318 Arch Street (formerly George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
	www.phlf.org /plaques/localprocedure.html (503 words)

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