"Reporters have repeatedly credited the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 with the first Ferris Wheel," the paper wrote in 1953, "but records in the city show they are false." Maybe the way ...

“Too fragile,” he said. Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel. In fact, a carpenter named William Somers was building 50-foot wooden wheels at Asbury Park, Atlantic City and ...