World’s Columbian Exposition

Meet George Ferris, The Engineer Who Designed the Ferris Wheel

Visitors to 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition were awed by the size of George Ferris’s Wheel.

October 12, 2023BY Rachel Pfeiffer

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