Smithsonian’s Fun Facts About Roller Coasters

In honor of National Roller Coaster Day, Smithsonian listed fourteen fun facts about rollercoasters. Some you may know and some are just out of this world.

On August 16, 1898, Edwin Prescott, a roller coaster designer from Massachusetts, was granted a patent for an improvement to roller coasters that ride enthusiasts have come to take for granted—the vertical loop. While the roller coaster depicted in the patent’s illustration, and later realized as the Loop the Loop coaster at Coney Island, wasn’t the first to invert riders in a loop, it did usher in the safer, more comfortable and now prevailing elliptical-shaped loop.

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