A history of the Ferris Wheel from the Galesburg Zephyr. Galesburg, Illinois was the birthplace of the Ferris Wheel’s inventor, George Washington Gale Ferris.

Like many other things (Frederick Jackson Turner’s notion of the closing of the frontier, Ragtime music, Edison’s Kinetoscope, the zipper, pancake mix, juicy fruit gum, the automatic dishwasher, cracker jacks, shredded wheat cereal, the vertical file, the pledge of allegiance, iced tea, and more than I care to list right now), the Ferris Wheel was introduced at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.