Roller Coaster's inventor: Who is LaMarcus Adna Thompson?
The passion for adrenaline attracted adventurers throughout history. These people sometimes floated down the heavens with a rope bound to their feet and sometimes reached the peaks called. The sine qua non of the amusement park “Roller Coaster” is exactly such an invention. Who is the inventor of Roller Coaster?
The origin of the Roller Coaster invention is based on the ice hills, which were specially built for entertainment in Russia around the 18th century and called the “Russian Mountains”. ,
The ice hills, which have a decreased angle of 21 to 24 meters high and have a 50-degree drop, were indispensable entertainment tools for festivals in the short season.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the French, inspired by the Russians' ice skiing entertainment, gave a new dimension to the entertainment by making the first speed train with wheels on the rails.
LaMarcus Adna Thompson (March 8, 1848 – May 8, 1919) was an American inventor and businessman most famous for developing a variety of gravity rides and roller coasters. Thompson is best known for his early work developing roller coasters and for inventing the scenic railway genre of rides. He is known as the "Father of the American Roller Coaster" and is often also called the "Father of the Gravity Ride".
The oldest known roles were built in Paris in 1817, Les Montagnes Russes Belleville, which means “Belleville Russian Mountains”.
Roller Coaster Fikri, born in Europe, could not maintain its popularity for a long time, but in the same years, a primitive role Coaster in a coal mine in Pennsylvania, USA, changed by accidental invention.
The adventurers seized the coal mine and used the rails for entertainment.
A rail system was established to move down the coals removed from a mine on the top of Mount Mount Mauch Chunk. Thanks to this rail system, the coal was loaded into the vehicle after the rails were left down and quickly reached the channel. After the coal mine was closed in the 1850s, the rails were captured by adventurers. The adventurers, full of vehicles, left themselves down at the rails.
Inspired by this crazy entertainment understanding, Thompson, named LaMarcus, developed the first role Coaster design of the modern age for entertainment purposes and applied for a patent. (Roller Coasting Structure titled U.S. Patent No. 310966)
This patent, which was registered in January 1885, described a shift structure with parallel rails and a structure that enabled a vehicle to be transferred from one track to another when it reached the end of the runway. It was aimed to use the Coaster structure developed according to a patent for “pleasure and entertainment”.
Established in an amusement park in New York Coney Island, these roles have settled the focus of entertainment lovers and attracted a lot of attention. The design, which has not lost its popularity, has been developed by different inventors over the years and has become one of the most popular entertainment vehicles of the age.
Roller Coaster entertainment, which has developed from the past to the present day, continues to appear with crazier and more exciting ideas for those who want to experience adrenaline and excitement.