print email comment close Inventor of the Week Archive: George Ferris URL: http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/ferris.html Description: Profile of George Ferris, who "conceived, designed and built an engineering marvel [the Ferris wheel], which astonished the world at its debut and became a mainstay of American recreation." Topics include the design, which was based on a bicycle wheel, and the debut of the Ferris wheel at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. From the MIT School of Engineering. Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) LII Database Information: Record 21986 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/21986