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As it turns out, Bueller wasn't the first Ferris to sweep Chicago off its feet.

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Thank you We sneak in in eighteen ninety three chicago

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had an exhibition It was the colombian expo was celebrating

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four hundred years of the voyage of christopher columbus to

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the united states Has americans like two things We like

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to go big and we like a lot of competition

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Don't mess with us because bill one appia we always

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liked a challenge So this year was one of those

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times france did we rob the eiffel tower L tried

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to be upset and it was very impressive People like

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well this is you americans were like whoa hey that's

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cool that's nice and all But we got something even

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better So the organizers of this expedition challenge designers to

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say hey come on let's get something better let's So

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show other people what chicago does best They hired a

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guy that came out of the woodwork designer by the

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name of g w ferris which the g w stood

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for george washington ensure that kind of helped his bidding

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process in this whole thing may hope he didn't have

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to compete with abraham lincoln johnson or something Yeah they

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hired this guy It was like all right i'll build

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you something here and he came up with the design

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It basically was a giant wheel that suspended little gondola's

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on it that would move So ferris and then there

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was a wheel I think you know where i'm going

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with this Yes he invented the ferris wheel and it

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was huge And people were odd by like wow this

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is cool It could hold over two thousand people and

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they could see it was so big and they could

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they could actually go all way to the top and

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see whole exposition from where they were And that was

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his goal And it'd really well because it was fifty

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cents per ride which in today's conversion is fourteen dollars

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a ride But people were into it and they bought

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in so much so that they actually made so much

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money to keep the fire going And it they kept

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the paid pretty much for the exposition The romantic idea

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of getting married was kind of an idea that lot

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of people had so people would get married in these

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gondola's right there like cool Well here's it's Even more

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scary Actually i thought what is that That in each

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One of the gondolas they actually had attendance there each

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one automatic attended placed inside in order to kind of

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prevent people from getting scared and reassure them that everything

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was okay And i don't know about you But if

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i wanted a new ride and there was a guy

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sitting next to me to make sure i wasn't scared

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i might be kind of scared Was this the biggest

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thing to come out of chicago I think it's fair 00:02:27.555 --> [endTime] to say so

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