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1905 St Louis World’s Fair – Stereoscopic Wiggle Animation

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1905 - Looking down West Cascade at night and across Grand Basin to Palace of Education, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, U.S.A. (aka. Saint Louis World's Fair)

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1904 Biggest Ferris Wheel – Stereoscopic Animation

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1904 - Biggest wheel on earth (240 ft. diam.) with heaviest axle ever forged (56 tons), Worlds Fair, St. Louis

1904 - Biggest wheel on earth (240 ft. diam.) with heaviest axle ever forged (56 tons), World's Fair, St. Louis

To view the complete collection in full resolution, visit clicksypics.com.  To find out how these are created, go here.

3-D Wiggle Animation – The Great Ferris Wheel

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1905 - The great ferris wheel - first erected Chicago 1893 - now at Worlds Fair, St. Louis

1905 - The great ferris wheel - first erected Chicago 1893 - now at World's Fair, St. Louis

Checking out referring links is turning out to be a big time sink, but it’s way too entertaining.  I wasted about two hours at alltop after seeing a link from guykawasaki.  Thanks, guy!  I did a little research and learned that the first animations were actually found on cave walls.  No surprise, they were mostly comprised of scantily clad and very hairy women.

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