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A date, which should note each vienna fan, falls into the year 1897. In the context of the celebrations to 50. Return of the accession emperor Franz Josefs I gave the English naval second lieutenant and engineer walter B. Basset the idea to establish on the reasons of the emperor garden " gigantic wheel " a ferris wheel. Already in the years before such ferris wheels in Blackpool, London and Chicago were built and assumed by the public very …

…last pin into the wheel construction and opened thereby a successful epoch, which stops now already almost 100 years! The test runs became for Gabor Steiner and its engineers file village and Hitchins a triumph. How sceptically one expected to the line-up of the Viennese of ferris wheel, one can see from the fact that itself a clerk ion member - as the hour of the truth had come - strict refused mounting the railroad car.