The man who invented the ferris wheel : the genius of George Ferris
(2014)
By:
Sneed, Dani
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Enslow Publishing, LLC, 2014
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780766057487 MWT15612219, 0766057488 15612219
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. was an American engineer. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, where he was a member of the Rensselaer Society of Engineers, in the class of 1881 with a degree in Civil Engineering. He was made a member of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumni Hall of Fame in 1998. He is most famous for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition
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