“Too fragile,” he said. 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 ...

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The original Ferris wheel was destroyed in 1906 ... along Brooklyn's famous boardwalk. The Pixar Pal-A-Round at Disney California Adventure is nearly identical to the Coney Island landmark.

Although the Ferris wheel was physically the biggest item, the biggest price tag went to the flying horse merry-go-round which sold for more than $12,000. Manufactured in the 1930s, the 24-seater ...