It may be time for the Eli Bridge Co. to change its name. In the last century, the Downstate, family-run business has built only one bridge. But the company’s name belies its true vocation: the ...

Among the many historical structures in downtown Fort Smith is a completely restored, 77-year-old Ferris wheel built by the Eli Bridge Co. in Jacksonville, Ill. Rising 55-feet, 2¾ inches above the ...

American engineer William E. Sullivan had ridden Ferris’ wheel and was impressed with both the technological feat of the wheel and its potential for profit, especially if it were smaller. Despite the ...

Thank you, George Ferris, for giving us the Ferris wheel. Soon, we will float as high as the sky (that’s about 110 feet) at Davenport’s Modern Woodmen Park on a glorified version of your Ferris wheel.

In a new spin on the bicycle, a Yale mechanical engineering class has created a bike whose spokeless wheels appear to rotate around thin air. The bicycle, which its inventors believe to be the first ...