Editing Ferris wheel (section)

===Somers' Wheel===
[[File:Somers Wheel (Roundabout) c. 1892.jpg|thumb|William Somers' Wheel, installed 1892, immediate precursor to the original [[Ferris Wheel (1893)|Ferris Wheel]]]]
In 1892, William Somers installed three fifty-foot wooden wheels at [[Asbury Park, New Jersey]]; [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]]; and [[Coney Island]], New York. The following year he was granted the first U.S. patent for a "Roundabout".<ref>[http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-35D explorepahistory.com – Ferris Wheel Inventor Historical Marker] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312032622/http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-35D |date=March 12, 2016 }}</ref><ref name="patents">{{Cite web|url=http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/v/a/vac3/flat2.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225223641/http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/v/a/vac3/flat2.html|url-status=dead|title=U.S. Patents for Ferris Wheels|archive-date=February 25, 2014}}</ref> [[George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.]] rode on Somers' wheel in Atlantic City prior to designing his wheel for the [[World's Columbian Exposition]]. In 1893 Somers filed a lawsuit against Ferris for patent infringement; however, Ferris and his lawyers successfully argued that the Ferris Wheel and its technology differed greatly from Somers' wheel, and the case was dismissed.<ref>{{cite book| last=Cahan|first=Richard| title=A court that shaped America: Chicago's federal district court from Abe Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman|year=2002|publisher=[[Northwestern University Press]] |location=Evanston, Ill.|isbn=0-8101-1981-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/courtthatshapeda0000caha/page/45 45]|url=https://archive.org/details/courtthatshapeda0000caha|url-access=registration|edition=[Online-Ausg.]}}</ref>