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In 1893, George Washington Ferris was the champion of U.S. technology, the engineer whose vision and relentless pursuit of his deam proved that America could top the Eiffel Tower. That magnificent structure which could carry 2,160 passengers at a time to a height equivalent to 26 story building was a significant engineering triumph in an era when most people had never seen a skyscraper. His reputation quickly grew as the press recounted his struggle to build the machine that other engineers had said could not be built.
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Muvdi, B.B., Al-Khafaji, A.W., McNabb, J.W. (1997). Two-Dimensional Kinetics of Rigid Bodies: Energy. In: Dynamics for Engineers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1914-9_7
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