Nikola Tesla's BIg Wheel At Niagara Falls

How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

Paintings of Niagara Falls
*Underneath Niagara Falls, by Richardt at the Met, 1862
*Arthur Parton, Niagara Falls (Brooklyn Museum)
*View of Niagara Falls, by Ferdinand Richardt
*Louis Rémy Mignot, Niagara, Brooklyn Museum
*William Morris Hunt, Niagara Falls, 1878
*Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara Falls, 1857, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.