Today is National Roller Coaster Day
If you love a thrill ride – THIS is the day for you! Back in 1878, Richard Knudsen and J.G. Taylor received a U.S. patent for what would eventually be referred to as a wooden roller coaster. The device consisted of two adjacent railway tracks that ran between two towers carrying four-passenger cars; the force of gravity would pull the cars down gently sloping hills. The cars would then be hauled up by the elevator in the opposite tower for the return trip.