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4. Types of ferris wheels.

1. What is it?

5. How they work?

2. Where we can found it?

6. Some parts.

7. Curiosities.

3. Who was de inventor?

WHAT IS IT?

- The so-called ferriswheel, of Muslim influence, allowed water to be obtained from the interior to later distribute it through tanks and various channels to the different orchards in the area, he clarifies.

WHERE WE CAN FOUND IT?

-The "ferris or shooting wheel" is located in the second lot that overlaps an area of ​​24,000 m2 (almost 25% of the final area) in the area closest to the Arga river and the Magdalena bridge, in addition to from the pedestrian entrance to the park and the Txantrea from the city center.

WHO WAS THE INVENTOR?

-Archimedes -Ferris wheels owe their name to the fact that the driving force was carried out by draft beasts, such as mules and donkeys. The norias were born in the East, dating for the first time from the hands of Archimedes in the third century BC.

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Types of ferris wheels:

The most normal Ferris wheel has two wheels, as if it were a gear.

The other way is by using a donkey or mule to move the wheels.

How IT work?

-The ferris wheel is a machine composed basically of two large wheels, a horizontal one that moved by an animal, transmits its turn to another vertical installed on the mouth of the well, which is accompanied by a circular rope with attached vessels that hangs to the bottom of the well and that with the rotation of the wheel raises the water to the surface.

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Some parts:

curiosities:

• The tallest Ferris wheel in the world measures about 20m and is in Hama, in Syria.

• There are several references to the Ferris wheel in art, for example in the poetry.

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