THE GIGANTIC WHEEL, now being erected on the site of the old bowling green in a corner of the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, was commenced on December 1, 1895, says the Building News. The work of erecting the supports was not finished until the third week in March, and then the most difficult portion of the work, viz., that of hoisting the axle, was commenced. The axle, a steel forging weighing over 28 tons and measuring nearly 41 ft. long and 26 in. in diameter, was forged at the works of Messrs. W. Beardmore & Company, of Glasgow. The axle and bearings being fixed complete, the work of building the rims of the wheel will be pushed forward rapidly under the direction of Mr. Walter B. Basset, who also built the Earl's Court wheel. The carriages, thirty in number, and each capable of carrying forty persons, are rapidly approaching completion in the works of Messrs. Brown, Marshall & Company, of Birmingham. The driving engines and most of the intermediate gearing are already in position in the engine house. These engines will operate two steel wire ropes, one on either side of the rim of the wheel, and arrangements have been made and provided for in such gearing to enable the wheel to be turned at a quicker speed than that at Earl's Court. The Blackpool wheel will be able to carry more passengers per hour than its predecessor in London. The particulars of the great wheel are: Total height above sea level, 250 ft.; total diameter (across centers of pins), 200 ft.; total weight, 1,000 tons. The solid axle is of a diameter through the journals of 2 ft. 2 in., a diameter across the flanges of 5 ft. 3 in., length over all 41 ft., and weight 28 tons. * * * * * ELECTRICAL NOTES. PORTRAITS of Morse and Fulton are printed on the reverse of the new two dollar silver certificate, affording a relief to the dreary monotony of ex-presidents, generals and statesmen. A MONSTER electric elevator is to be erected at Allegheny, Pa. It will be large enough to carry up several wagons at once. The new elevator will save a trip of a mile and a quarter. AN EXCURSION TROLLEY car on the Milwaukee Street Railway has 700 incandescent lights. The car is 32 feet over all. The platforms are 5 foot. The floor of the car is carpeted and a few tables for refreshments are provided. AMSTERDAM will have next year an international exhibition of hotel arrangements and accommodations for travelers. Among the features of the exhibition will be an "electric restaurant," without waiters, in which visitors will be served automatically with a complete dinner on pressing an electric button. PROF. FLEMING has shown by experiments that with a 2,000 volt alternating current with a water resistance, that the latter is quite non-inductive, and that the readings of the amperes may be taken, says the Electrical World, as a measurement of the voltage, and the product of the volts and amperes will represent correctly the power consumed.