Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — Tires Fifteen Feet High. [ARTICLE]

Tires Fifteen Feet High.

There is now in process of reconstruction at Boston a tricycle which will weigh when completed 350 pounds. The dimensions of the big tires are fifteen feet in diameter and the small tire six feet. The machine is geared to forty-three, and is analogous to a locomotive. Four men on one side are geared to one wheel and the four on the opposite side to the other wheel. It was built from plans drawn by John O. de Wolfe, a mechanical expert, who conceived the idea of the big machine. It is now being rebuilt, and the steering apparatus changed so that the two front men on either side will steer the wheel. This will do away with the ninth man. A G34-karat diamond, the finest ever found in Africa, was discovered at Jagersfonteiu, in the Transvaal, on the day after Christmas. When cut It is expected it will be worth $1,500,000,