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It is a fair attraction that consists of a large wheel that rotates vertically and that has a series of cabins or wagons with seats for people.
Navy Pier built a new wheel that worked within the ride between 1995-2015
the 1893 World Exposition opened in Chicago
The third version of the Ferris Wheel in 2016 is expected to start operating
was disarmed, sold and finally dynamited in 1906
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The Ferris wheel owes its famous design to George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., a structural engineer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who inspected steel for the Exposition. Ferris brought the idea for an enormous metal wheel to Daniel Burnham, the fair’s lead architect, after Burnham requested an iconic structure. Burnham and his peers hoped that it could rival the Eiffel Tower, which had been built for the 1889 Exposition Universal in Paris.
Almost exactly 110 years after the original wheel was demolished, a new Ferris wheel opened on Navy Pier in 2016.
REINVENTING THE WHEEL
the new Ferris wheel at Navy Pier shares a few similarities with the original: its new gondolas are larger and enclosed and its new height is closer to the original’s dazzling 264 feet.
The Ferris Wheel took 20 minutes to make two revolutions, the first involving six stops to allow passengers to exit and enter and the second a nine-minute non-stop rotation, for which the ticket holder paid 50 cents.
The Ferris Wheel first opened to the public as the centerpiece of the World's Columbian Exposition at Midway Plaisance in Chicago on June 21, 1893, and continued to operate there until after the exposition ended in October 1893.[4]
This is the view of the World´s Columbian Exposition of Chicago from 1893 from the Ferris Wheel
Navy Pier
This second Chicago Wheel was 43 meters high , and still offered visitors an impressive view of the city's skyline, as well as Lake Michigan. People of all ages were attracted to the magnificent structure. A ride on Navy Pier did not seem complete if it did not get on the Ferris Wheel.
The Navy Pier Ferris wheel operated for almost 20 years transporting a total of almost 16 million people. Its last turn was on Sunday, September 27, 2015 and the next day, it began to be dismantled to give way to the installation of the new structure that will replace it and that will start operating in mid-2016.
Navy Pier was constructed in 1916 on thousands of 12-inch diameter wood piles. In 1992, this portion of Navy Pier was redeveloped with a precast concrete parking structure supported on concrete caissons spaced at 60 feet in the north/south direction, with 30-foot bays in the east/west direction and a full-width expansion joint east of the original wheel.
The upper Pier Park level of Navy Pier houses the main public space which includes the Ferris wheel, swings, carousel, and other amusements
The wheel designed by Ferris was supported by two steel supports 43 meters high . The central axis of the middle wheel almost 14 meters long and was a piece of steel of a size never before forged. Arming the wheel was like putting together a puzzle of more than 100,000 pieces .
This second Chicago Wheel was 43 meters high , and still offered visitors an impressive view of the city's skyline, as well as Lake Michigan. People of all ages were attracted to the magnificent structure. A ride on Navy Pier did not seem complete if it did not get on the Ferris Wheel.
The new Chicago Wheel is now almost 60 meters high and has 40 gondolas with capacity for 8 adults and two children each. The structure can carry a maximum of 414 passengers simultaneously.
The gondolas of the new Chicago Wheel are equipped with individual seats and video screens that show interesting facts about the city. The gondolas. which were once red, are now blue, the characteristic color of Navy Pier.