British Airways London Eye, also known as Millennium Wheel, 1999 was opened, and it was the largest observation wheel in the world until it was replaced by Nanchang Star. Now, this record has been broken by Singapore skyscrapers as high as 165 meters. The London Eye is 135 m (443 ft) high, located at the western end of Jubilee Garden, on the south bank of the Thames in Lamberthz, London, England, between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge (coordinates: 5130'12 north latitude, 00 07'/kloc-0 west longitude). The Ferris wheel is adjacent to London City Hall and stands opposite the office of the Ministry of Defence.

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Designed by architects David Marks, Julia barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparohok, Steven chilton and Nick Bailey, the ship has 32 sealed air-conditioned passenger cabins installed on its outer circumference. It rotates at a speed of 0.26 meters (0.85 feet) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph), so it takes about 30 minutes a week. Wheels usually don't stop to pick up passengers: the rotation speed is so slow that passengers can easily get on and off the moving space capsule on the ground. However, it will stop to give disabled or elderly passengers time to get on and off the ship safely.

The edge of the eye is supported by a pull rod and looks like a huge spoke bicycle wheel, which is also described in an advertising poster of a charity bicycle race.

The wheels are built in sections, which are assembled by barges carried on the Thames and laid flat on the pontoon bridge. Once the wheel is completed, it will be lifted to an upright position by a crane at a speed of 2 degrees per hour until it reaches 65 degrees. When the engineers were preparing for the second phase of promotion, it was left in that position for a week. The total weight of steel in the eye is 1, 700 tons.

It was opened by British Prime Minister Tony Blair on1February 3 1, 1999 at 20:00 GMT, although it was not opened to the public until March 2000 due to technical problems. Since its opening up, Eye operated by Tussauds Group but sponsored by British Airways has become a major landmark and tourist attraction.

By July 2002, about 8.5 million people had ridden this eye. It only had a five-year planning permission, but then the Lamberthz Parliament agreed to make the scenic spot permanent.

Although "Eye" is listed as the highest observation wheel in the world by Guinness World Records, it is unlikely to keep this title for long. It has been announced that there are plans to build a 170-meter-long ferris wheel in Las Vegas and a 185-meter-long ferris wheel called "Giant Ferris Wheel", which is scheduled to open in Berlin in 2008.

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The London Eye is the most attractive tourist attraction in London. The London Eye, the world's largest ferris wheel on the Thames in London, will always be a landmark in London.

/kloc-The 0/35-meter-high London Eye was built to celebrate the year 2000. It was initially allowed to operate for five years, but the owner of the "London Eye" wanted to continue operating.

British Airways, which owns part of the London Eye, said local authorities in London approved it as a permanent landmark. This decision still needs to be approved by London Mayor Livingstone and the British government. Since its opening in March 2000, more than 8.5 million people have taken the "London Eye" to have a bird's eye view of London. The London Eye is also the most popular paid sightseeing spot in Britain. British Airways said that a building with 1500 tons can be used for at least 50 years.

However, the honor that the London Eye is the largest ferris wheel in the world will not last long. Las Vegas, a leisure city in the United States, and Shanghai, an economic and trade center in China, plan to build a bigger sightseeing Ferris wheel.

It is considered as a mathematical miracle; Engineers revealed that the computer computing power needed to build this Ferris wheel exceeded the largest and most complex building in the world.

The London Eye, weighing 1600 tons, was built on a platform floating on the river. It was originally scheduled to stand at attention in early September and will be open to the public next year 1 month. Until now near the completion stage, the engineers in charge of construction confidently revealed that they had done millions more calculations than originally expected in the design and construction to ensure its safety.

There are many obstacles in the construction of Ferris wheel, which makes critics call it "the wheel of misfortune". First of all, the height is reduced by 45 feet compared with the original schedule to reduce the construction time; Recently, various technical and safety problems have forced the installation work to be postponed.

However, these problems are insignificant compared with the achievements in design and construction. It is hard to imagine that the design and construction of such a ferris wheel with the greatest technology and difficulty in history was completed within 16 months.

Thomson, the design manager, said, "anything so huge will be affected by wind and temperature, not to mention it will rotate, so the problem of metal fatigue should also be taken into account." When these factors change with the length and width of the Ferris wheel, the most complicated architectural problems in history arise, which you can't imagine. "

The concept of "London Eye" can be traced back to a competition held by 1993 Times. The newspaper asked the participants to come up with the most ambitious plans to celebrate the Millennium. Two architects took the lead in proposing to build the world's largest Ferris wheel. This project inspired the imagination of Eileen, the chairman of British Airways, and decided to invest money to realize it.

For the designer of the Ferris wheel, apart from its size, the most wonderful thing is that this behemoth can stand firmly on the Thames. Two brackets extending from the land will bear most of the weight of the Ferris wheel, plus six giant steel cables to prevent it from collapsing; To ensure safety, these brackets and steel cable piles will be driven into the ground 180 feet. With a height of 135 meters (443 feet), the London Eye is the largest Ferris wheel in Europe and has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in Britain, with more than 3 million people visiting it every year. When it was built, it was the tallest Ferris wheel in the world, until it was surpassed by Nanchang Star (160m) in May 2006, and then by Singapore Skyscraper Sightseeing Wheel (160m) in February 2008. However, it is still described by its operators as "the highest cantilever observation wheel in the world" (because the whole structure is only supported by a-shaped frame on one side).

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