A Great Wheel,
♦■ At Earl's Court, London, a great wheel has been finished. It has an altitude of 800 feet. The axle rests upon eight steel columns, each of which.* is -four feet square. The axle is a steel tube with a diameter of 7ft-,) and a length of 35ft, and weighed 60 ton?. The wheel is in 40 sections, corresponding to the number of cars it is to carry. * There will be two classes of cars, and the wheel will be able to carry 1200 passengers, and it will be > driven at a rate of a single revolution . in about 25 minutes. The cars will
swing perfectly leVel throughout the round trip* Frotn the top of tho wheel a lnagniflcienfc "View can be had. The occupants of the cars Will see London atid its environs beneath them $ and on > clear day will be able to follow the course of the Thames from Richmond to Graves end with ease,
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Manawatu Herald, 3 September 1895, Page 3
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159A Great Wheel, Manawatu Herald, 3 September 1895, Page 3
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