Ferris wheel
device · 1893 · Electric age
Ferris’s wheel.
Inventor: George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr..
What it is made of
- Spoke — has part. Tension spokes — as in a bicycle wheel.
Principles and materials it uses
- Steel — is made of. Steel.
What it is a kind of
- Wheel — is a kind of. A Ferris wheel is a huge spoked wheel with cabins hung from its rim.
Things built in a similar way
- Bicycle wheel — works like. A giant wheel with spokes in tension.