Great Wheel (disambiguation)

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The Great Wheel was a 94-metre (308 ft) Ferris wheel built for the Empire of India Exhibition at Earls Court in London in 1895.

Great Wheel former ferris wheel in London

The Great Wheel was built for the Empire of India Exhibition at Earls Court, London, in the United Kingdom. Construction began in March 1894 at the works of Maudslay, Sons and Field in Greenwich and it opened to the public on 17 July 1895. Modelled on the original Ferris Wheel which featured at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, US, it was 94 metres (308 ft) tall and 82.3 metres (270 ft) in diameter. It stayed in service until 1906, by which time its 40 cars had carried over 2.5 million passengers. It was demolished in 1907 following its last use at the Imperial Austrian Exhibition.

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Great Wheel may also refer to:

Great Wheel Corporation company

Great Wheel Corporation was a company engaged in the development, building, financing, and operation of Ferris wheels, which they often termed "observation wheels" or "observation platforms".

Seattle Great Wheel

The Seattle Great Wheel is a giant Ferris wheel at Pier 57 on Elliott Bay in Seattle, Washington. With an overall height of 175 feet (53.3 m), it was the tallest Ferris wheel on the West Coast of the United States when it opened on June 29, 2012.

Grande Roue de Paris

The Grande Roue de Paris was a 100-metre (328 ft) tall Ferris wheel built in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle world exhibition at Paris. Financing the "Grande Roue de Paris" happened by the creation of the "Paris Gigantic Wheel and Varieties Company" and selling the shares of this company.

Ferris wheels that were proposed but never built

The Beijing Great Wheel, a 208-metre (682 ft) tall giant Ferris wheel, was to have been constructed in eastern Beijing's Chaoyang Park, one of the 2008 Summer Olympics venues. If it had been built, it would have become the world's tallest Ferris wheel, superseding the 165 m (541 ft) Singapore Flyer.

Great Berlin Wheel Proposed giant Ferris wheel

The Great Berlin Wheel was a giant Ferris wheel to be built near the Berlin Zoological Garden in Berlin, Germany, by the Great Wheel Corporation.

The Great Orlando Wheel is one of at least five Great Wheel Corporation proposed giant Ferris wheel projects which failed between 2007 and 2010.

Fiction

<i>The Great Wheel</i> book by Robert Lawson

The Great Wheel is Robert Lawson's final children's book, published in 1957, the year of his death. It was posthumously named as a Newbery Honor book in 1958.

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