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The first & greatest Ferris Wheel...
The first & greatest Ferris Wheel...
Item # 602488
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July 01, 1893
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, July 1, 1893 This issue has one of the more famous covers of the entire 160+ year history of this famous magazine, captioned: "The World's Columbian Exposition--The Great Ferris Wheel, 250 Ft. in diameter, 36 cars, 40 seats per car."
About 1 1/2 pages within are taken up with text & 3 prints on the Ferris Wheel & its construction. This was the very first created, meant to be a landmark piece for the Columbian Exposition, to rival the Eiffel Tower which was the landmark for the Paris Exposition a few years earlier. And indeed it was--fully loaded this Ferris Wheel could carry 1440 people. Ultimately the wheel would be dismantled & re-erected at the St. Louis Fair in 1904 and would then be sold for scrap in 1906.
Complete in 16 pages, never bound nor trimmed, various light dirtiness to the front page with 2 light water stains. Inside pages are very nice. A very desirable issue.
Category: Post-Civil War
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