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By: LaMarcus Thompson

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It was made for entertainment, people came all around to Coney Island just to ride it. LaMarcus Thompson was the creator of the first roller coaster and they called him "Father of the American Roller Coaster". Thompson wanted to give the world and riders a better view around landscape. 

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The Switchback Railway at Coney Island

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Millenium Force at Cedar Point

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First Roller Coaster - Decades TV Network

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A former coal-carrying railway in Pennsylvania became the inspiration for America's first roller coaster. From the Mauch Chunk Railway, LaMarcus Adna Thompson created his version of the roller coaster and opened the Switchback Railway at Coney Island, New York, in June of 1884.

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21 A switchback railway Robert W Paul, 1898

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"Many of the evils of society, much of the vice and crime which we deplore come from the degrading nature of amusements…to substitute something better, something clean and wholesome, and persuade men to chose it, is worthy of all endeavor. We can offer sunshine that glows bright in the afterthought, and scatters the darkness of the tenement for the price of a nickel or a dime." — L.A. Thompson