Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History

About this book

Norman Anderson has written a gripping story of one of the engineering marvels of both the nineteenth and the twentieth century the ferris wheel. The idea of this contraption may be as old as the water wheel and written descriptions and drawings of pleasure wheels go back at least four centuries. There have been dozens of experiments with design and constructionearly portable wheels by Strobel the Condermans Sullivan and others; one-of-a-kind wheels like Schnitzlers Asbury Park wheel with a tower and Stubbs water-turned wheel at Electric Park in Waterloo Iowa; giant wheels in London Blackpool Vienna Paris and recently in Japan.