Jul 07 2026
By Margo Ellis

How the First Ferris Wheel Came to Life, Thanks to American Manufacturing

Chicago needed something big for the 1893 World’s Fair. American steelworkers had the answer. In 1893, the Chicago World’s Fair needed a centerpiece. Seeking to rival Paris’s Eiffel Tower, which had been created for the 1889 Paris Exposition, organizers in […]

Jul 07 2026
 

An American Original: The Story of the Smithsonian Carousel

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America Chose Independence. Let’s Keep it That Way.

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For More Than a Century, and Through Beatlemania, Ludwig Drums Have Kept the Beat