Between 1952 and 1954, in a series of articles in the popular magazine Collier's, the German-American rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun presented his vision of a space station as a massive wheel-shaped structure that would rotate to generate "artificial gravity" from centrifugal force, sparing its crew of 1,000 scientists and engineers the drawbacks of weightlessness.
For a certain kind of jammy Guardian journalist who has seen Blur play everywhere from Goldsmiths college to Glastonbury, Coachella provided a nice twist by installing a massive ferris wheel on site from which you could watch headline acts from a rather unique perspective.
Or you can take an elevator to the 56th floor of Rockefeller Center in New York and look for an alcove that encloses a massive Ferris wheel of a Rolodex.
Once the capsules are installed, the attraction's 14 "wheel drivers," the components that physically turn the massive wheel, will become operational, he said.
The truck groaned its way up the ramp, stirring puffs of dirt beneath its massive wheels, as a single police officer, in formal dress, jogged beside it.
defer.add img); Massive wheels on a small car and vice versa can look ridiculous.
The original G-Ro's claim to fame were its massive wheels designed to lift over curbs and offer a smooth, steady ride.
Upon learning that some rare Belgian cheeses were available, he high-fived his sous-fromager, then directed some assistants who were lugging massive wheels of Beaufort.
The earth below is highly uneven, but the vehicle's massive wheels, each with its own gyroscope and hydraulic controls, extend, twist and tilt to keep the cab perfectly level as they line up on either side of the vines.
Parmesan cheese producers near the quake's epicentre in flat farmland north of Bologna said 300,000 massive wheels of the cheese that were ageing on tall shelves in warehouses crashed to the ground.
