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George Ferris, what a wheel!George Ferris, what a wheel!

George Ferris, what a wheel!

Barbara Lowell

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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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OL Work ID
OL17928328W

Subjects

Civil engineersBiographyFerris wheelsInventorsJuvenile literatureStructural engineeringHistoryInventors, juvenile literatureInventionsInventions, juvenile literature

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