The origin of Roller coaster

The first Giga coaster, the 310 ft  
tall Millennium Force at Cedar Point.
(Picture from: http://en.wikipedia.org/)

Today almost in all of countries in the world have entertainment facilities such as a roller coaster. The discovery of the roller coaster is an unique invention in the world. For hundreds of years, humans make many experiments to meet these goals. Ranging from the ice track to the high voltage magnets track, the roller coaster had undergone many evolutions.

Based on the record in bobholland.com, that the first roller coaster in the world are run in Russia in around the 1400s. This facility, not invented by one particular person, but it is the work of a group of Russian citizens. At that time, the track that used in the ice skating track. Therefore, the roller coaster can only be operated with either in the winter.

LaMarcus Adna Thompson
 (Picture from: http://www.aps.org/)

More seriously, in 1784 the Russian authorities was build a roller coaster to the public at the Gardens of Oreinbaum in St Petersburg, Russia, in an amusement center is also known as "Katalnaya Gorka". Shortly after the facility is built, the war between Russia and Napoleon Bonaparte of France broke. While in Russia, Napoleon's troops love playing with the roller coaster, both in the dried and ice track. This habit gives a very strong impression to members of Napoleon's troops.

Upon returning from the war in Russia, they brought the idea to build a roller coaster in France. In 1817 the two facilities roller coaster built at the same time in France. The first roller coaster facility is built at the Belleville was called Les Montages Russes (Russian Mountain) and another one built at in the Paris Beajon park named Promandes Aériennes. Both are listed as the roller coaster facility that built specifically for the entertainment business.

Thompson's Switchback Railway 1884. (Picture from: http://en.wikipedia.org/)

The roller coaster user is rode on a wooden cart that was launched in the iron track with a speed of 30 kph. Although it discovered by Russian citizens group, but the world is now named LaMarcus Thompson as the "Father of the World Roller Coaster" or "Father of the Gravity Ride". Because he was the first businessman, who made the roller coaster as a big business in 1884. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES]
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