George Ferris, what a wheel!

By Barbara Lowell

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Inventions, juvenile literature, Biography, Civil engineers, Ferris wheels, Structural engineering, Inventors, juvenile literature, Inventions, History, Inventors

Description: 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.