Roller coaster engineer Korey Kiepert joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about roller coasters and the people who design them. How do roller coasters work? Who invented the first ...
How do roller coasters work? In this in-depth video, we explore the history, physics, and engineering behind roller coasters — from the earliest Russian Mountains and wooden switchback railways to ...
Mekado Murphy, the assistant film editor for The New York Times, moonlights as the newspaper’s unofficial roller coaster ...
(WHTM) — Now that you know what the five oldest steel roller coasters in Pennsylvania are, now it’s time to find out what the oldest wooden coasters are. Wooden coasters were some of the very first ...
The origins of roller coasters can be traced back primarily to Russian ice slides in the 17th century. The idea of an elevated track-based ride evolved throughout Europe, but the modern conception of ...