Editing Ferris wheel (section)

===Antique Ferris wheels===
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| style="border: 0;" | [[File:Wiener Prater Vienna Austria 20476.JPG|128px|center]]
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| colspan="2" style="border: 0; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.0em; padding: 0.5em;" | {{center|[[Wiener Riesenrad]], Vienna, built in 1897, originally had 30 passenger cabins but was rebuilt with 15 cabins following a fire in 1944}}
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The [[Wiener Riesenrad]] ([[German language|German]] for "Viennese Giant Wheel") is a surviving example of 19th-century Ferris wheels. Erected in 1897 in the [[Wurstelprater]] section of [[Prater]] public park in the [[Leopoldstadt]] district of [[Vienna]], [[Austria]], to celebrate Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Josef I]]'s [[Golden Jubilee]], it has a height of {{Convert|64.75|m|ft|0}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wienerriesenrad.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816092808/http://www.wienerriesenrad.com/index.php?menu=info&source=technik&lang=en|url-status=dead|title=Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel - Since 1897|archive-date=August 16, 2016|website=Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel}}</ref> and originally had 30 passenger cars. A demolition permit for the Riesenrad was issued in 1916, but due to a lack of funds with which to carry out the destruction, it survived.<ref name="wienerriesenradhistory">{{Cite web|url=http://wienerriesenrad.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092136/http://www.wienerriesenrad.com/index.php?menu=geschichte&source=geschichte&lang=en|url-status=dead|title=Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel - Since 1897|archive-date=March 4, 2016|website=Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel}}</ref>

Following the demolition of the {{Convert|96|m|ft|0|adj=on}} [[Grande Roue de Paris]] in 1920,<ref name="Anderson" /><ref name="worldfairs">{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldfairs.info/expopavillondetails.php?expo_id=8&pavillon_id=504|title=Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris 1900 - Le bilan d'un siècle|website=worldfairs.info|year=1900|language=fr}}</ref> the Riesenrad became the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel. In 1944 it burnt down, but was rebuilt the following year<ref name="wienerriesenradhistory" /> with 15 passenger cars, and remained the world's tallest extant wheel until its 97th year, when the {{Convert|85|m|ft|0|adj=on}} [[Technocosmos]] was constructed for [[Expo '85]], at [[Tsukuba, Ibaraki]], [[Japan]].

Still in operation today, it is one of Vienna's most popular [[tourist attraction]]s, and over the years has featured in numerous films (including ''Madame Solange d`Atalide'' (1914),<ref name="wienerriesenradhistory" /> ''[[Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948 film)|Letter from an Unknown Woman]]'' (1948), ''[[The Third Man]]'' (1949), ''[[The Living Daylights]]'' (1987), ''[[Before Sunrise]]'' (1995) and novels.