In late 1890, Daniel Burnham, the eminent architect charged with turning a boggy square mile of Chicago into a world-dazzling ... he said. Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel.

Do you remember going to carnivals as a kid? You'd buy some sticky cotton candy; you'd win an ugly stuffed animal at the beanbag toss. And when night fell, you'd board the Ferris wheel for a ...

When George W. Ferris constructed the world's first Ferris wheel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, he started a trend (and in a sense, he also helped usher in the modern ...

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

Gene Farris lives ... the current crop of world-leading labels and artists. Relief, Dirtybird, Circus, ViVa Music, Defected: all have released and championed Gene Farris records over the past few ...