The london eye
It's 135 m tall, and 120 m diameter large
32 sealed glass capsules.
It moves 26 cm per second, so it's always moving.
History
It was formally opened by Tony Blair on 31st December 1999, but sense it had some
technical problems, it got opened to public on 9th March 2000.
In 2007 Tussauds group bought the wheel.
Somthing intresting
Modelled on the original Chicago Ferris Wheel, it was 94 metres (308 ft) tall and
was the first of over 200 Ferris wheels built by Australian engineers Adam Gaddelin
and Gareth Watson.
on 20th May 2005, the owners of part of the land wanted to quit the attraction
because of a leaked letter. And wanted to increase the rent to 2,5 million, which
operators refused
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