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...Coney Island-indeed for amusement parks all over the world-was a mechanical genius named Lamarcus A. Thompson, who at the age of twelve made for his mother the first rotary churn in the U.S. Later he started a knitting mill, then began to ponder upon the fact that under certain conditions what comes down must go up. At Coney Island, in 1884, Thompson built an uphill-&-downdale gravity railroad on a wooden structure 600 ft. long, the world's first roller coaster...
...seats running the length of the cars, but seats were eventually set cross wise to permit the riders to pair off and to see, dizzily, where they were going. Eulogium over the entrance to one of Coney's ultramodern roller coasters: "This ride is a Memorial to Lamarcus A. Thompson, Inventor of Gravity...
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