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 …showed first 75 words of 285 total…

…showed last 75 words of 285 total…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.