print email comment close North Side: George Ferris URL: http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n105a.html Description: Reprints of two newspaper articles from 1893 about George Ferris, inventor of the Ferris wheel. One discusses the building of the Ferris wheel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the other talks about the debut and first riders of the Ferris wheel. From the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Publisher: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Extra Keywords world's fair LII Database Information: Record 21985 created by Jennifer English on 06/26/2006 Last modification on 06/27/2006 Published: 06/29/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21985