英语词汇ferris wheel的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Ferris wheel. Not even Little Egypt, the first belly dancer to perform in America, outdrew the Ferris wheel at the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. The ride was the work of George Washington Gale Ferris (1859–96), a Gales- burg, Illinois, railroad and bridge engineer. A giant steel struc- ture weighing over 1,200 tons, the first Ferris wheel stood 140 feet high and measured 250 feet in diameter, with 36 cars at its rims capable of carrying 1,440 riders. The chief wonder of the “World’s Fair” had been built on the tension spoke principle, the large power-driven vertical wheel revolving on a stationary axis and rotating between two pyramids. So great was the wheel’s success that imitations soon became standard at all amusement parks worthy of the name.

词汇	ferris wheel
词源	Ferris wheel. Not even Little Egypt, the first belly dancer to perform in America, outdrew the Ferris wheel at the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. The ride was the work of George Washington Gale Ferris (1859–96), a Gales- burg, Illinois, railroad and bridge engineer. A giant steel struc- ture weighing over 1,200 tons, the first Ferris wheel stood 140 feet high and measured 250 feet in diameter, with 36 cars at its rims capable of carrying 1,440 riders. The chief wonder of the “World’s Fair” had been built on the tension spoke principle, the large power-driven vertical wheel revolving on a stationary axis and rotating between two pyramids. So great was the wheel’s success that imitations soon became standard at all amusement parks worthy of the name.
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