Description • Architect: Marks and Barfield
• World's tallest Ferris wheel till 2007, the tallest one in Europe till 2022
• From the top of the London Eye you can see up to 25 miles in each direction.
• The 32 hi-tech capsules can carry over 15,000 vistors per day. Enough to fill concorde 160 times over.
• The 80 'spokes' of the London Eye use a total of six kilometres of cable.
• On average the Eye makes 8000 rotations in one calendar year at a speed of 0.26 metres per second
• The passenger capsules of the London Eye incorporate an entirely new design form for observation wheels. Instead of being suspended under gravity they turn within circular mounting rings fixed to the outside of the main rim, allowing a spectacular 360 - degree panorama at the top.
• The Eye uses two types of cable, wheel cables and backstay cables. Wheel cables include 16 rim rotation cables, and 64 spoke cables, these are similar to bicycle spokes and stretch across the wheel. There are 4 backstay cables, which are located in the compression foundation.
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