According to Architecture.org "The Ferris wheel owes its famous design to George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., a structural engineer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who inspected steel for the Chicago fair. Ferris brought the idea for an enormous metal wheel to Daniel Burnham, the fair’s lead architect, after Burnham requested an iconic structure"
It all started in Chicago for the World’s Fair of 1893. Now, over a one hundred and 20 years later, the ferris wheel is being re-imagined!