“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 ...

It feels more like one, too: The wheel's capsules are enclosed, but they're very small. Of course, Daikanransha is no ordinary Ferris wheel because it's more than 350 feet tall. From start to ...