“Too fragile,” he said. Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel. In fact, a carpenter named William Somers was building 50-foot wooden wheels at Asbury Park, Atlantic City and ...

And when night fell, you'd board the Ferris wheel ... How tall: 120 meters (about 393.7 feet) The Zhengzhou Ferris Wheel was China's first almost-400-foot-high wheel. Since its debut in 2003 ...

After debuting in 1996, the Pacific Wheel was adapted as the world's first solar-powered Ferris wheel two years later. The park in 2011 also introduced the world's first wind-powered amusement ...

After more than 20 years, the iconic Ferris wheel in Odaiba ... special illumination every night. From sundown until 10 p.m. every night until Aug. 31, the giant wheel will be lit up repeatedly ...