Parisian ferris wheel
The Paris Ferris Wheel was a Ferris wheel with a diameter of 100 meters that was built in 1900 in Paris ( Avenue de Suffren ) on the occasion of the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . It was in operation until 1920, when it was dismantled to make way for the Village Suisse , which now houses 150 antique shops, decorators and galleries. It stood south and only a few meters from the Field of Mars on avenue de Suffren, which ran parallel to the green area.
The construction of the ferris wheel was financed by the establishment of the English stock corporation "The Paris Gigantic Wheel and Varieties Company Limited" and the issue of their shares. The bike was owned by Théodore Vienne , an entrepreneur from Roubaix who was also a shareholder in the local cycle track and one of the initiators of the Paris – Roubaix cycle race .
The Paris ferris wheel was the largest in the world during its entire lifetime. It was not until the 1980s that a similarly large Ferris wheel was built again. From 2000 to 2003 the Roue de Paris was in the Tuileries .
Classification to other ferris wheels
George Ferris, the inventor of the Ferris wheel, implemented the first such amusement ride at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 . The success of this invention prompted the British naval officer and engineer Walter Bassett Basset to buy Ferris' patent and subsequently to build four more Ferris wheels in Europe. The only one of these four first Ferris wheels from around the turn of the century that is still standing is the Wiener Riesenrad in the Prater, which is a structurally smaller copy of the Blackpool Ferris wheel . A Ferris wheel planned for the New Brighton district, as part of Wallasey , was not built due to legal disputes between Basset and Graydon. The place built the New Brighton Tower to replace it , but it was demolished again in the 1920s.
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| Maximum height | 84 m | 91.4 m | 67 m | 64.7 m | 100 m |
| Year of construction | 1893 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1900 |
| Year of dismantling | 1906 | 1906 | 1928 | in operation | 1920 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Paris Gigantic Wheel and Varieties Company Limited. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
- ^ Philippe Conrate / Pascal Sergent: Entre Paris et Roubaix. Petites histories d'une grande classique . Editions Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyre-Sur-Loire 2006, ISBN 2-84910-411-6 , p. 17 .
- ↑ Anderson: Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History. Pp. 94-95.
- ↑ Anderson: Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History. P. 95.
- ↑ Anderson: Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History. P. 113.
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '8.5 " N , 2 ° 17' 57.3" E