Ferris Wheel: How the Eiffel Tower wasn't good enough 

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***** The real question is why don't the World Fairs still do awesome things like this, the Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower.

Simon G Most of the money for a project like that would likely get wasted on nepotism, overcharges, and other corruption. I'm sure there are decent people with good ideas, but they likely don't have the influence.

I want metric units....at least as a text in video editing

It is, just not in the US. Germany 2003 Rostock Thailand 2006-7 Chiang Mai Netherlands 2012 Floriade in Venlo Turkey 2016 Antalya

Tyler Simpson the floriade was a world expo? Shit, I just went there to look at pretty flowers and nice hammocks

Also sounds like Paris Wheel. Whoa.....

Eskil Sæter A misspelling or typo would result in "ferrous" wheel, which is also an accurate description, unless it's made of aluminum or titanium.

Firas / ferris " same pronunciation “ is an arabic name that I have , it means lion and smartness.

that stock photo work is pretty good too.

They're coming every Tuesday morning for the foreseeable future! Source: I help make them :D

I think it was officially called the Millennium Wheel and colloquially called the London Eye? I could be though.

London Eye opened in the year 2000. "millennium" wheel. get it? lol

London eye sounds so much cooler. nicknames where i live are always in endearing mock , stuff like the 'penguin rock' or even the 'tits'. ( it's a sky-scraper with two a pointed roof, i think it's by Michael Graves the guy who did the bird kettle, but that could be the building behind it)

It's changed official names a few times. It is currently known as "The Coca-Cola London Eye".

Stephen Butler London eye is slang like Big Ben

Maybe you can find a corner to cry in.

As a recent electrical engineering graduate who has been in many different teams I couldn't agree more with you.

The greatest problem with teamwork... Is "ego", can get in the way. Teamwork has its place.. Only works if ego is put aside. As for the lone engineer? He/she, still exists. You simply don't hear much about them. Because they credit the "team" that made the idea happen. With a team to enact an idea, it remains an idea. I'm sure Mr Ferris didn't build his wheel, himself, single-handedly. He likely had a team of men who built it to his specs. A team who likely saw no credit for their hard work.

did he use to take a day off??

there is an outside US? no way... It's around 15 meters tall (the US first version) the London version is around 135 meters, The Singapore is around 150 meters :) Hope it helps! -Someone Inside the US

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+Ecchi-BANZAII!!! I know! Same in Norwegian :P

+Ecchi-BANZAII!!! Stand in line, it's "devil's mill / wheel" in Polish :)

+Ecchi-BANZAII!!! Giant Wheel in Portuguese.

+0YouCanCallMeAl0 It's Devil's wheel in Georgian as well.

+Kakhi Sanikidze Same in Russian and Ukrainian :) We call it Devil's wheel or Observation wheel.

The High Roller was announced in 2011, the one in Singapore was open in 2008, this audio was recorded in 2005.

chronnotrigg Whats your point? He was just stating that there is a Ferris Wheel taller than the Singapore Flyer.

***** His comment read like it was correcting an error in the video except it wasn't an error. So my comment was correcting that error. His comment can be read as just a statement of fact (so can mine), but it wasn't worded that way (nether was mine).

chronnotrigg On the contrary, I read his comment as if it was saying "If you think that the Singapore Flyer is *still* the highest Ferris Wheel, the High Roller now in Las Vegas is actually taller". I read his comment as an addition to the information given in the video, not a correction to it.

***** That's the problem with text, it can leave too much to the imagination of the reader. You saw it as an addendum, I saw it as a correction. Since it wasn't specified in the comment, we're just going to have to accept that.

Corey Walsh there are variations ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YAWCSDbt2rQ.html

It is. That had to be a mistake.

+Joon Park Totally Queens at the site of the 1964 World's Fair. There was also the 1939 World's Fair there as well, but the iconic Globe you see in that photo is from the '64 Fair. The '39 Fair did not have the globe, but a giant white sphere.

Ls9819 Opps my fault there

Same in Iceland. Kinda ironic considering what Bill said in the video.

Yep!

Considering how its got it's original name, I think we can assume that it is Paris is a bastardization of the word. "Did he say Farris wheel? No must have been Paris wheel."

czechs call it the "russian wheel" for some reason... edit: did some research and turns out Ferris didn't invent the wheel, it was already known to russians in the 17th century

Ronald Tartaglia It was moved twice (to Lincoln Park and later to St Louis) and then blown up with dynamite around 1906.