"Descriptions, pictures and dimensions all fail of their purpose. The only way in which one may comprehend the vastness, the almost weird wonderfulness of this construction, is to see it. Overshadowing everything else in that part of the World’s Fair region, it grows and grows as one approaches nearer. Finally, it appalls and overwhelms," said Walter Wellman, journalist for Schenectady’s Daily Union newspaper, writing about the Ferris wheel at the Columbian Exposition, seen above, in a story published May 12, 1893