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The first Ferris wheel was built for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Modeled after smaller "pleasure wheels," the 250-foot-high creation was named for its builder, George W. Gale Ferris. Each of its 36 cars, which were the, size of a school bus, could hold 60 people, Fair organizers hopped that the Ferris wheel would rival the Eiffel Tower, which had been built for the Paris World's Fair of 1889. However, "the World's Greatest Ride" was later dynamite and sold as scrap meta.