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The guy's name was George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. in the year 1893 for a fair.
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He was born on February 14, 1859.
The first Ferris Wheel was designed and built by George Ferris for the Chicago Colombian Exposition in 1893. I'm sorry, but I don't know the dates of any patents issued against that work, but I assume that they would be from the early 1890's.
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4000 BC
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George Bunnell did not invent the candle. The candle is believed to have been invented by the ancient Romans in the 1st century AD.
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