. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. PQQQQDOd ing in the world. 334 ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION, ETC. 864. GIGANTIC WHEEL, London, Eng. Three hundred feetin diameter, carried on two towers, 175 feet high, in which are saloonand balconies. The wheel is driven by a steel wire hawser ij inchesin diameter.
. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. PQQQQDOd ing in the world. 334 ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION, ETC. 864. GIGANTIC WHEEL, London, Eng. Three hundred feetin diameter, carried on two towers, 175 feet high, in which are saloonand balconies. The wheel is driven by a steel wire hawser ij inchesin diameter. There are two of these, one on each side, passing around. grooves on the sides of the wheel, at 195 feet diameter. It is only in-tended to use one at a time. The motive power is taken from two 50-horse-power dynamos, and of these one will be sufficient, and the otherin reserve. There are 40 cars, each 25 feet long, and 8 platforms forloading at once as many cars. 865. End view, showing the three balconies and their Hfts. 866. MOVING PLAT-FORM for boarding rail-way cars. The stepped plat-form railway will be very of accidents are lim-ited. The fall of a person pass-ing from one platform to an-other would not be attendedwith serious results, as the dif-ference between the speed oftwo platforms is equal to theaverage speed of a pedestrian.
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