Ferris Wheel
by Nina Prommer
Title
Ferris Wheel
Artist
Nina Prommer
Medium
Photograph - Photo
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Ferris Wheel by Nina Prommer
Retro Style image of a Ferris Wheel.
A Ferris wheel, named after George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., (also sometimes called a big wheel, observation wheel, or, in the case of the very tallest examples, giant wheel) is a nonbuilding structure consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually by gravity.
Some of the largest modern Ferris wheels have cars mounted on the outside of the rim, with electric motors to independently rotate each car to keep it upright. These wheels are sometimes referred to as observation wheels, and their cars referred to as capsules, however these alternative names are also sometimes used for wheels with conventional gravity-oriented cars.
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July 17th, 2015
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