The funny thing about wheels is that we are used to seeing them in use all around us but they are a manmade thing. There aren’t any wheels in nature and the only ones in the animal world that create and use them are human beings. Before the invention of the wheel people had to pull or push things along the ground.
The Midway Sky Eye was manufactured by the Lamberinkcompany in the Netherlands, and the pieces were shipped to the United States. Owned by Wade Shows, it is the largest traveling Ferris Wheel!
The Midway Sky Eye is lit by more than 524,000 individual LED red, green, blue, yellow, orange and purple lights, ensuring its place as the brightest spectacle at the Fair.
The Sky Eye is equipped with 36 gondolas that hold six people each. Riders can see more than 15 miles.