Roller Coaster and Amusement Ride Home Page

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

• Roller Coaster Patent Site (also includes patents for non-coaster amusement rides)

• North American Wild Mouse page

• how to identify kiddie coasters

• a short 2001 essay about the very early history of the roller coaster in the U. S.
• an illustrated exploration of track and wheel arrangements used on wooden roller coasters
• number of operating wooden roller coasters, 1960-2006
• lengths and heights of wooden roller coasters
• lengths and heights compared between wooden and steel roller coasters
• selected links to other roller coaster sites

• roller coaster topology page (a scheme for describing compact roller coasters)

• Rides of 1960 page

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

• Terraserver park index

• 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

about this site

Last revised 14-Aug-2009