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The 1893 World's Fair: The White City, Tesla vs. Edison, and the First Ferris Wheel | History Sleep Story w. Rain Sounds
Drift off tonight beneath the gaslit domes of the White City. This is the full story of the 1893 World's Fair, the Chicago exposition that rose out of a swamp to become the most spectacular event of the nineteenth century, then vanished almost overnight.
Settle in under rain sounds and gentle narration as we cover the fair's impossible construction race against Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted, the War of Currents fought between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla for the contract to light the entire fairground, the invention of the original Ferris Wheel built to out-do the Eiffel Tower…
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