On this date in 1884, the first purpose-built roller coaster opened on New York’s Coney Island. Here are some things you may not have known about that first roller coaster and those that have followed it. The origins of roller coasters can be traced to attractions called Russian mountains, which were hills of ice with slides reinforced by wooden supports. […]

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