55: The Wheel In His Head Kept On Turning
From Anonymous America · 5:41
Show by Jerry Broadway
Every carnival and boardwalk in America has one, and we don’t give it a second thought — but there was a day when no Ferris wheel existed anywhere on earth. When Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair challenged American engineers to out-do the Eiffel Tower, a steel engineer named George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. proposed a revolving wheel 264 feet tall — and was told it would collapse and kill everyone aboard.
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