Defunctland: A Roundabout History of the Ferris Wheel

Episode Title: Defunctland: A Roundabout History of the Ferris Wheel
Produced by: Defunctland
Description: Buy Defunctland T-Shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/defunctland Donate on Patreon: https://patreon.com/defunctland In the Season 3 Premiere, Kevin and company go all the way back to the 19th century to explore the origins of World's Fairs, the Ferris Wheel, and much much more. Selected or Major Sources: America at the Great Exhibition of 1851 Author(s): Marcus Cunliffe Source: American Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer, 1951), pp. 115-126 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections/photographs-of-international-expositions/exposition-universelle-de-1889.html http://www.arthurchandler.com/paris-1889-exposition http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html http://www.hydeparkhistory.org/2015/04/27/ferris-wheel-in-the-1893-chicago-worlds-fair/ Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/Defunctland-1142494142561537/ Defunctland Twitter: https://twitter.com/defunctland Defunctland Subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/defunctland Contact: contact@defunctland.com For more great content, visit defunctland.com

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