Roller Coaster History

A roller coaster is an amusement park attraction that consists of a light railroad track with many tight turns and steep slopes, on which people ride in small fast open cars. The Russians created slides out of ice. The slides would go up to 70 and 80 feet tall and there were drops of 50 feet ("Amusement Park Physics -- Roller Coaster”). People traveled down the slide and would land into huge sand piles. They first appeared during the 17th century. Slides grew favor with the Russian upper class.
The Russians built the first wheeled machine. Also, they were some that were made that did not need ice in the 1700s. The French put additional wheels to their sleds and they created their form of slides using wax. They had come up with compound tracks

for roller coasters. Also, to make it easier, the French connected carts that held the riders together to make the lines go faster for each roller coaster. The first American roller coaster had been made in the hills of Pennsylvania ("History of the Roller Coaster”).
Baltimore native J.G.

Taylor submitted the first patent for a roller coaster in 1872. LaMarcus Adna Thompson created the first wooden roller coaster. Philo M. Stevenson built a circular railway in Chicago in 1883. They held 30 improvement patents for roller coasters in 1887. They built 50 roller coasters in Europe and America in 1888. Also, they organized the L.A. Thompson Scenic Railway Company because that way it will make it easier for people who want to look at scenic places that they can just hop right on to the scenic train ("History of the Roller Coaster”) ("Roller Coaster History”).
The Great American Revolution was the first coaster to attempt a vertical loop since the early 1900s. John Allen created a large and pleasing ride that led the love of all wooden coasters in 1972. Charles Dinn constructed the longest wooden coaster in the world in 1979. The He referred to it as a somewhat modestly as “improvement in inclined railways". In the 1980s people came up with encouraging developments. The first successful roller coaster was made in 1992. Paramount Parks constructed Werner Stengel design in 2000 (“Roller Coaster

History”).
Magnetic propulsion launch systems hurled trains and riders down the track of a roller coaster. The carts, that had locks on them, had these special axles that would slide in the groove that would go into the track. The axle of the carts would then be able to fit into an open area that had the inside of the tracks carved and it was served as an important to the modern-day wheel. For one roller coaster, it had two individual tracks that ran in the opposite directions from each main tower. A straighten track with a groove running down the middle; a bench with wheels was fitted into the groove (“Roller Coaster History”).
People invented triggers that were under the tracks that could activate the emergency cable and stop the ride.

Side-friction wheels were limited with the velocity and the depth of the plunge, and the under-friction wheels allowed crazy speeds. Roller Coasters were fitted with "side-friction wheels," they were rolled along the inner edges of the coaster track. People walked up the stairs to the top of the slide for a fast and thrilling ride to the bottom. One-person sleds were constructed with wheels’ underneath, and passengers speeded to the bottom of the slide during the summer months (“Roller Coaster History”).
Cars that passengers rode in had four steel wheels’ underneath and two on each side. Riders sat in trains that were closely resembled like ski-lift chairs, with their legs dangling. The Riders were subjected to the loops; they were used to heart-line rolls and a ride that was smooth. First complete-circuit coaster was topped at 300 feet in height and it reached speeds that were more than 90 mph. Mega-coasters were designed by Werner Stengel and it set new standards for all steel rides. Roller Coasters are nice and fun, roller coasters are for everyone (“Roller Coaster

History”).