World's First Ferris Wheel – Dear Old Wabash

Banks of the Wabash Festival returns for another summer

Ferris Wheel

Ferris Wheel

History of the Ferris wheel; 1893 original was taller than Navy Pier's – Chicago Tribune

I met her on the ferris wheel - NYPL Digital Collections

History of the Centennial Wheel at Navy Pier

Here's the history of the Ferris Wheel - plus photos of the massive first wheel ever made - Click Americana

The ferris wheel souvenir - NYPL Digital Collections

The great ferris wheel - first erected Chicago 1893 - now at World's Fair, St. Louis