Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Ferris wheel
First built
1893
George Ferris built the first one for the world’s fair in Chicago.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P575: 1893Q202570, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“efter konstruktøren George Ferris (1859-1896). George Ferris' pariserhjul, der blev opstillet på verdensudstillingen i Chicago i 1893, havde en højde på 80 meter. Med en højde på 168 meter er "High Roller" i Las Vegas”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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