Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel. In fact, a carpenter named William Somers was building 50-foot wooden wheels at Asbury Park, Atlantic City and Coney Island; a roundabout ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Cincinnati Police Department has issued a warning to drivers after sharing photos of a car that became flooded near the entrance of the former Coney Island site.

The Ferris wheel made its debut 128 years ... the 100-year-old Wonder Wheel of Brooklyn's Coney Island has something others don't: interior cars that slide down tracks and swing back and forth ...

Ferris constructed the world's first Ferris wheel ... Wheel at Coney Island. Introduced in 1920 at a height of 150 feet, it is still taking passengers for a wild ride in its swinging cars (as ...