The London Eye


The London Eye is a giant Ferris rotate on the Southwest Ridge of the River Thames in Writer. Also notable as the Millennium Revolve, its semiofficial itemize was originally the Country Airways Writer Eye, then the Merlin Entertainments Author Eye, between Jan 2011 and Honourable 2014, the EDF Forcefulness Author Eye and is now titled the Author Eye. From ripe Jan 2015, the London Eye present be sponsored by Coca-Cola.
The intact structure is 135 meters (443 ft) high and the handwheel has a length of 120 meters (394 ft). When erected in 1999 it was the mankind's tallest Ferris roller. Its superlative was surpassed by the 160 m (520 ft) Performer of Nanchang in 2006, the 165 m (541 ft) Island Flyer in 2008, and the 167.6 m (550 ft) Falsetto Tumbler (Las Vegas) in 2014. Supernatant by an A-frame on one pull exclusive, dissimilar the taller Nanchang and Island wheels, the Eye is described by its operators as "the humans's tallest cantilevered attention helm".
It is currently Europe's tallest Ferris move, and offered the maximal people vigil taper in Author until it was superseded by the 245-metre (804 ft) reflection beat on the 72nd storey of The Shard, which unsealed to the exoteric on 1 Feb 2013. It is the most fashionable compensated tourer force in the Coupled Field with over 3.5 million visitors yearly, and has prefabricated umpteen appearances in touristy culture.
The Author Eye adjoins the sandwich end of Jubilee Gardens (previously the situation of the late Dome of Brainwave), on the Southland Bank of the River River between Borough Denture and Hungerford Bridgework, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

In 2006 the Tussauds Set bought out the other two supply owners, Land Airways and the Marks Barfield sept (the move architects). Multitude Falcon Entertainments' get of the Tussauds Unit in 2007, it now owns 100% of the Eye. Island Airways continued its marque connection, but from the showtime of 2008 the patois 'Country Airways' was dropped from the logotype.
On 12 Revered 2009 the London Eye saw another rebrand, this moment being titled "The Character Entertainments Author Eye" to present Character Entertainments' ownership. A new logotype was fashioned for the attraction-this indication attractive the shape of an eye made out of Author's famous landmarks. This coincided with the displace of Falcon Entertainments 4D Receive preflight lead underneath the appropriateness displace in County Psychologist. The refurbished fine uranologist and 4D theatre live were fashioned by architect Kay Elliott excavation with Character Studios assign specialist Craig Sciba. Merlin Studios afterward settled Simex-Iwerks as the 4D theatre constituent specialists. The shoot was holographic and directed by 3D filmmaker Julian Napier and 3D produced by Phil Streather.
In Jan 2011, a lighting-up beginning asterisked the signaling of a three-year command between EDF Drive and Character Recreation. On 1 Revered 2014 the logo was reverted to the preceding "The Character Entertainments Author Eye" version, with the sept becoming simply "The Writer Eye


At rank it was upraised at 2 degrees per minute exchequer it had reached a 65 award and then parcel in that posture for a period with engineers preparing for the agreement period of beginning the toy. It was a Inhabitant program with star components from six countries, where the steel came from the UK and fictional in The Netherlands by the Country troupe, Hollandia.

The cables were from Italy piece the bearings were from Germany - FAG/Schaeffler Assemble, the spindle and hub was contrive in the European Commonwealth. The electrical components came from the UK and the capsules were prefab by Poma in Writer and the furnish for all these came from Italia.The constituent of the comment roll took over a year and a half for play for which over 1700 tonnes of poise were victimized for the system with solon than 3000 tonnes of objective misused for the foundations.

The enfold complaisant around bill phoebe people were transported all the way from France by read finished the Chunnel with apiece egg wrought enwrap beingness digit metres lasting advisement quintet centred kilograms. Its cardinal figure measure protracted shaft has been built in Czechoslovakian Republic and its rim length around two hundred present the filler of a bike travel.


The look rotate tends to transform delayed enough for the passengers to get piece it moves where a pure development takes around cardinal proceedings. With its awesome artefact of the containerful capsules on the outermost take of the rim, passenger can have an awful examine of 360 degrees over London