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George Ferris, what a wheel!

by Barbara Lowell

Civil engineersBiographyFerris wheelsInventorsJuvenile literatureStructural engineeringHistoryInventors, juvenile literature

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.

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Book data: Open Library