nprfreshair: The first Ferris Wheel (for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893) under construction. The cars were the size of city buses, making the first one constructed the largest ever made. Passengers fainted left and right from the shock of being up so high… by 19th century standards it was wild. Time travel, anyone? via Retronaut - http://plasticmadness.tumblr.com/post...