George Ferris's birthday is being celebrated by a Valentine's Day Google doodle. Ferris is famous for inventing the Ferris wheel, which is featured in the animated doodle. Ferris was born on February 14, 1859, in Galesburg, Illinois, USA to George Washington Gale Ferris Sr. and Martha Edgerton Hyde. In 1864, five years after Ferris was born, his family moved to Nevada. Ferris left Nevada in 1875, to attend the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio City, Benguet. link
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