"Longan" is the first officially operated Ferris wheel in Changzhou, the highest rooftop Ferris wheel in China and the highest rooftop Ferris wheel in China. Based on the British "London Eye" and "Shanghai Grand Turntable", it is one of the landmark buildings in the south of the Yangtze River and a new tourist landmark in Changzhou (Longcheng).

Radial spoke type is adopted, with a diameter of 88m and a height of120m, which is equivalent to a height of 40 stories. "Longan" * * * has 48 carriages, each with 4 passengers. All carriages have air conditioning and music.

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The development history of ferris wheel;

The earliest Ferris wheel was designed by American George farris in 1893 for the Chicago Columbus Memorial Expo, in order to compete with the Paris Tower built in 1889 Expo. The first Ferris wheel weighs 2200 tons and can take 2 160 people, which is equivalent to the height of 26 floors. It is precisely because of the achievements of the Ferris wheel that people will call this facility "Ferris wheel", which is also commonly known as the Ferris wheel.

The Vienna Ferris wheel is the surviving19th century Ferris wheel, which is still in operation today. On 1897, it was erected in the Pratt Playground in Leopold (the second district), which was built for the 50th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josef I's accession to the throne, with a total height of 64.75 meters. 1920, after the Paris Ferris wheel was dismantled, the Vienna Ferris wheel became the world's largest.

1944 was burned down in World War II, and it was rebuilt the following year, still maintaining the status of the highest ferris wheel in the world until 1985 was surpassed by Tsukuba (85 meters high) in Japan.

The British Airways London Eye, which once occupied the throne of the world's largest ferris wheel for a long time, is located on the Thames. It is a ferris wheel with a total height of 1.35 meters from the ground, and it is also a pioneer in the design of this type of viewing ferris wheel.

However, its first position in the world was broken after the completion of Nanchang Star, a gravity ferris wheel with a total height of160m, located in People's Republic of China (PRC) and Nanchang City, China, and opened in March 2006.

In terms of ferris wheel diameter, the largest ferris wheel in Taiwan Province Province is located in Jianhu Mountain World, Gukeng Township, Yunlin County, with a diameter of 88 meters; However, in the dream era of Kaohsiung, although the eye of Kaohsiung is only 50m in diameter, it stands on the roof of the building instead of the ground, with a total height of102.5m, ranking the highest in Taiwan Province Province.

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