George W Ferris
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr
American
Engineer
George W Ferris was a notable engineer best known for designing the original Ferris Wheel, exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. - AsNotedIn
George W Ferris was a notable engineer best known for designing the original Ferris Wheel, exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1859/02/14 | George Washington Gale Ferris Jr is born in Galesburg, Illinois, the son of George Washington Gale Ferris and Martha (Hyde) Ferris. The family moved to Carson City, Nevada, in 1864. | Born | George Ferris's Birthday | ||||
| 1868/00/00 | George Washington Gale Ferris Sr buys the Mary A and Gregory A Sears residence. It's George Jr's boyhood home until the 1870s. | Work | Sears-Ferris House | Carson City | |||
| 1881/00/00 | George Washington Gale Ferris receives an engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. | Education | Winslow Chemical Laboratory | Troy | |||
| 1893/06/21 | The Ferris' Wheel opens to the public on the Midway Plaisance at the Columbian Expo. The ride makes two revolutions in 20 minutes, the first to allow passenger egress and a second nine-minute non-stop rotation. The ticket price is 50 cents ($15 in 2021). | Engineer | Chicago, grande roue (film) | Midway Plaisance Park, Chicago | Chicago | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | |
| 1894/04/00 | In the Spring, George Ferris ceases operations of the Chicago Wheel. It will take 86 days and cost $14,833 (today $445,000) to have it dismantled and placed in storage. | Owner | Chicago, grande roue (film) | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | |||
| 1895/00/00 | George Ferris assembles his Big Wheel at the 1200 block of N Clark St (today, 2600 block of N Clark St) and opens 'Ferris Wheel Park'. Investors sell bonds to landscape the grounds, build a restaurant, beer garden, bandshell and Vaudeville theater. | Engineer | Chicago, grande roue (film) | ||||
| 1896/11/00 | Struggling financially, the Ferris Wheel is seized by the Cook County Sheriff while Ferris Wheel Park remains open for business. | Engineer | Chicago, grande roue (film) | ||||
| 1896/11/22 | George Ferris dies of typhoid fever at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | Died | Chicago, grande roue (film) | ||||
| 1904/07/00 | George Ferris's Columbian Exposition Ferris Wheel is erected in St Louis for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. | Engineer | Chicago, grande roue (film) | Forest Park, STL | Louisiana Purchase Exposition |