It Happened on St. Valentine’s Day: Birthday of Ferris Wheel Inventor

Photo: the original Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, 1893. Credit: The New York Times photo archive; Wikimedia Commons.

American civil engineer and inventor of the Ferris wheel, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859-1896), was born on 14 February 1859 in Galesburg, Illinois, to George Washington Gale Ferris Sr. and Martha Edgerton (Hyde) Ferris. Read more at GenealogyBank