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The Man Who Invented the Ferris Wheel: The Genius of George Ferris

By Dani Sneed

Book information

Publisher
Inc., Enslow Publishers
Year
2013
ISBN
9781464511592, 9780766041363, 2012013976, 9781464402067, 9781464511196, 9781464611193, 9780766057487
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (14931845 bytes)
Series
Genius Inventors and Their Great Ideas
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-15 04:29:27
Biography & Autobiography; Juvenile Nonfiction; Sc

Description

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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