Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History

ISBN: 087972532X

Author: Anderson, Norman

Condition: New

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 construction-early 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.