Roller Coasters

The weather has to be nice. It cant be raining outside. Or most likely the rides will be shut down until better weather.(:

Building a Roller Coaster and designing one are to different issues. Builders are those who actually construct (build, erect,) the structure. They in turn rely on a blue-print. The design and blue print usually - at the least - includes the expertise of one who has an education in engineering.

Sea Serpent - roller coaster - was created in 1984.

the car looses potentional force and gains kinectic and sound :)

Im confused, age or height?

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Some roller coaster rides can go faster than the average speed of cars. The fastest roller coaster ride in the world is the Formula Rossa in the UAE. It goes 149 mph.

Yes becuase it is going up alot of hills and when it is coming down it is working

The PNE Wooden Roller Coaster goes about 45km/h

it is in a way the roller coster form being a curved form may come from an organic form .. being a rock or the sun watever u may decide .. but a roller coaster itself is not an organic form

Yes, at Seaworld Orlando, San Diego, and San Antonio

The Ride is 98 Feet tall and has a drop of about 50-60 feet.. Hope that helped :)

The smallest roller coaster at Cedar Point is Wilderness Run. It is a kiddie roller coaster that is only 19 feet tall and goes 6 mph.

No, the roller coaster is not the only example of a closed energy system.

That depends on how one defines invented. A few viewpoints to consider. . .

Historians agree that the ride's origins were the Russian Ice Slides. These slides first appeared during the 17th century throughout Russia, with a particular concentration in the area of in what would become St. Petersburg. The structures were built out of lumber with a sheet of ice several inches thick covering the surface. Riders climbed the stairs attached to the back of the slide, sped down the 50 degree drop and ascend the stairs of the slide that laid parallel (and opposite) to the first one. During the winter festival season slides were built between seventy and eighty feet high, stretched for hundreds of feet and accommodated many large sleds at once. Elaborate constructions often stretched several city blocks and were said to reach speeds of 50 mph.

The first "real" roller coaster, ( one built with wheels on a dry track), was constructed on orders of Catherine the Great. The roller coaster was built in the Gardens of Oreinbaum in St. Petersburg in an amusement center called Katalnaya Gorka in the year 1784. Soon after the first coaster was built, the Napoleonic Wars began. Many French soldiers grew fond of the ice slides while in Russia and brought the idea of the roller coaster back with them to France. . .

The first two roller coasters that operated on a continuous circuit were built in the early 1800s in France. One was named Les Montages Russes (The Russian Mountain) was built in Belleville, while the other named Promandes Aeriennes was built at Beajon Gardens in Paris. These two coasters were the first ever recorded to have wooden cars with wheels connected to a metal track. These first coasters were locked on to the track by a wheel axis projecting into grooves on the track. There was only one drop on these coasters, but they flew down the hill at an excess of 30 mph, after the coaster reached the bottom of the hill attendants had to push the car up the opposite side.

Mining company entrepreneur Josiah White built his "Gravity Road" in 1827 to expeditiously haul coal from the mines at Summit Hill to the Lehigh River landing at Mauch Chunk, PA (now the town of Jim Thorpe)--a nine-mile, downhill journey. Trains of up to 14 cars, loaded with 50,000 pounds of anthracite coal, sped down the mountain under the command of a single courageous "runner" who operated a brake lever. Mules had the unpleasant task of dragging the cars back up the mountain. But they enjoyed the rapid ride back down. And they weren't the only ones.

Quickly the thrilling Gravity Road became a public attraction. Coal was hauled in the morning, but the afternoon runs were filled with passengers paying 50 cents per ride. By the mid-19th century, the demand for coal was increasing, so White added a backtrack with two 120-horsepower steam engines at the top of nearby Mount Pisgah, which pulled the trains up the incline of 664 vertical feet, assisted by "barney," or "safety," cars. The ingenious addition of a ratchet rail running between the dual two-rail tracks, when engaged by a ratchet on the barney, prevented the cars from rolling backward. This safety device, later perfected, gave rise to the clanking sound that would characterize the latter-day coasters.

In 1872 a tunnel was completed that became a more efficient coal route than the Gravity Road, but it was not the end of the Mauch Chunk Switchback by any means. By 1873, 35,000 tourists were taking an 80-minute, 18-mile spectacularly scenic ride up and down Mount Pisgah and the other peak, Mount Jefferson. The price? A steep $1.

The first person to patent (not invent) a roller coaster was LaMarcus Adna Thompson on 20 January 1885. In essence a specialised railroad system, a coaster consists of a track that rises and falls in specially designed patterns, sometimes with one or more inversions (the most common being loops) that turns the rider briefly upside down. The track does not necessarily have to be a complete circuit (the antonym of complete circuit is "shuttle"), though some purists insist that it must to be a true coaster. (Note that not all thrill rides that run on a track are roller coasters). Most coasters have cars for two, four, or six passengers each, in which the passengers sit to travel around the circuit. An entire set of cars hooked together is referred to as a train.

The first video game of Roller Coaster Tycoon was released on March 31, 1999. Ever since then Roller Coaster Tycoon has been a success. The Microsoft Company release many more and was released on to Xbox.

The theme park in regards to anonymity, intentionally employ dwarfs or little people to inspect roller coasters tracks for breaks and nail in the loose nails and re weld the broken tracks. They also inspect the kiddy rides and the bumper cars that way the amusement park can save money, because tall construction workers cant quite fit in the small rides coasters and in between the rides for necessary maintenance like the little ones can. Therefore, keeping the jobs like picking up the trash and ticket taking for the upper enschelant members of socity like myself. Yep I work at a amusement park.

Pepsi Python - roller coaster - was created in 1999.

After a while its none of it is really "scary" but there is a huge adrenaline rush associated with those thing, and personally i'd say skydiving has the biggest rush. Anyways lets face it, a lot more people are more willng to ride a roller coaster, than go skydiving.

Yes. They are needed too operate the chains

Here is a list of interesting uses of cork coasters: Stamps, fridge magnets, Trivet, keychain, bathmat, mini succulent garden, coaster, jewelry organizer and so much more.

Almost all of them except 4 the people w/ strong stomachs.

101% UKThemeparkcapital it offers great information about the national roller coasters and is always being updated I would really recommend it and also there is a website you could visit. Great channel :)

you can find pictures of the first roller coaster ever built, in google.