The Prince of Wheelwrights: George Ferris and his Great Wheel

by Jack Klasey

In 1889, Gustave Eiffel's 984-foot iron tower was the wonder and signature engineering accomplishment of the Paris Universal Exposition.In 1892, a young American civil engineer -responding to a challenge to create a symbolic attraction for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago-proposed erecting a huge steel structure that would have an important characteristic that the Eiffel Tower did not: it would move. George Ferris envisioned a rotating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0932CSNGC
• ISBN13: 9798734195413
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"