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When George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. was born on 14 February 1859, in Galesburg, Knox, Illinois, United States, his father, George Washington Gale Ferris Sr, was 40 and his mother, Martha Edgerton Hyde, was 37. He married Margaret Ann Beatty on 18 September 1886, in Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States. He lived in Nevada, United States in 1870 and Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1896. In 1893, at the age of 34, his occupation is listed as inventor in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. He died on 22 November 1896, in UPMC Mercy, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.

George Ferris conceived, designed, and built an engineering marvel, which astonished the world at its debut and became a mainstay of American recreation.

George Washington Gale Ferris was born in Nevada in 1859. He attended high school in Oakland, California before enrolling at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute in Troy, New York, where he graduated in 1881 with a degree in engineering. Ferris found civil engineering work in Pittsburgh, where he specialized in constructing steel frameworks for bridges and tunnels.

When the World's Columbian Exhibition of 1893 was being planned in Chicago, the 33-year-old Ferris arrived hoping to help build a structure that could outdo the Eiffel Tower, the centerpiece of the Paris Exhibition of 1889. The Exhibition's planners wanted something "original, daring, and unique." Inspired, Ferris sketched a huge, revolving "observation wheel" on some scrap paper that same night in detail, down to the ticket price. The next day, he presented his idea to the committee. They had heard of the smaller, wooden "pleasure wheels" that had begun

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