Roller Coaster and Amusement Ride Home Page

This site encompasses a variety of topics related primarily to amusement ride technology and history.

Roller Coaster and Other Ride Patents

• U. S. Roller Coaster Patents
• Water Ride Patents
• Carousel and Related Patents
• Ferris Wheel Patents
• Other Swinging or Rotating Ride Patents
• Other Ride Patents
• Funhouses, Simulators, Etc.

Other Pages

• North American Wild Mouse page

• a short 2001 essay about the very early history of the roller coaster in the U. S.

• Rides of 1960 page

• Roto-Jet page
• Scrambler page
• Flying Coaster page
• Rotor page

• Newspaper accounts of early roller coasters
• The Rocky Mountain News and Denver's 1885 roller coaster
• Early accounts of the invention of the roller coaster
• Accounts of European gravity rides before 1884
• Accounts of early centrifugal railways
• Early roller coasters shown on maps

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