A Brief History of Roller Coasters
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- During their existence, theme parks, and roller coasters in particular, have spread to every corner of the globe. Many consider the birth of the modern day roller coaster to have occurred close to 60 years ago, with the revolutionary breakthrough of tubular steel technology. However, the entire history of these vast attractions date back even further in time. In this video, we’ll explore the history of roller coasters, from their humble origin, to the huge adrenaline machines they’ve become today.
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Fun fact: the french and spanish still call roller coasters 'russian mountains'
But in Russia they are "American mountains".
In a bunch of Germanic languages the word seems to mean "figure-8-railway" (probably because many early models had that shape).
...There is a claim that the English phrase "roller coaster" comes from a 19th-century ride in Haverhill, Massachusetts, that was not what we would call a roller coaster, but an indoor toboggan slide with tiny roller wheels on its surface. The ride was real, though it only operated for a few years (I figured out where it was, and the site is now a parking lot). It was three stories tall and wound around a roller rink in the middle. But I don't know whether it really originated the term "roller coaster". The Haverhill Roller Toboggan Company went on to build more conventional roller coasters.
They are called “montagne russe” or sometimes “ottovolanti” (literally “flying eight”) in Italy
"Furius Baco is a crazy intense Russian mountain"
@@blitzn00dle50 That's exactly what a Spanish person would say in Spanish
That scenic railway looks fresh... Also gotta give some credit to Catherine II of Russia for building her "Sliding Mountain" in Oranienbaum in 1762
It was rebuilt only a few years ago, that's why. I'll take a look at the "sliding mountain" :)
Glad to see The Racer get a mention :). It did have a role in coaster history, and some people don't give it credit.
Please do history on modern day rollercoasters
Will do Boss :)
@@coasterbot would still love to see it!!
Great video from you as usual. One of these days you'll have to produce a full on coaster documentary.
Thank you! I do hope to at some point, but that's a big project, which I don't really know when I'll have time for.
COASTER BOT Perhaps in the short term you could compile your what is videos from the same parks to make mini park documentaries
That's an interesting concept actually :)
@@coasterbot yeah it's gonna be a RUclips Movie. You Should Make a Teaser.
tfw Harry doesn’t ask for your opinion at the end of a video
I know, sorry boss :(
Hello there, Coaster Bot. Cool video. Glad you finally got to meet Logan from Koaster Kids during your European tour (of which you are currently still on till 06/29/18.) Met him for the first time just this Spring. He's an awesome young man (and his dad is also very cool.) He's changed the world one Koaster kid at a time (and one Koaster adult at a time, as well) and there is no end to it. My wife and I were so impressed by this, and when we heard Logan was going to go to Europe, we decided to throw in a little cash flow and donated some money to help with his tour. Well, my wife Natalie and i finally saw what you looked like (we saw the live stream just recently) and are so glad you joined in on that tour. Anyway, hope to run into you at an amusement park here in the states.
Hello! It was great to finally meet Logan and Jeff, they are great people. Thanks for watching the stream also, that's great to hear. I'm looking forward to meeting the guys again tomorrow in the UK. I'll be in the US at some point with everyone, so I'm sure you'll see me eventually :)
0:16 I KNEW YOU WOULD INCLUDE SMILER THEY DO IT EVERY FLIPPIN TIME!!!!!
I definitely think you should do a modern day version, maybe showing the progression from the 80s to today! Great video as always!
Thank you, and I am planning to now! :)
+COASTER BOT I'll definitely be looking out for that! Thanks ;D
COASTER BOT Include Cedar Point in the video! Countless record breaking rides and attractions on the scenic Lake Erie!
Basic History: *Keep your hands, legs, and feet inside the car at all times and hold on*
NO NEVER *raises hands on the first drop*
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Nice video! One idea I have for a video is “The Future of Roller Coasters”. It would be cool to see where coaster technology is headed to.
THE MATTERHORN!!! Thank you!!!
A brief history of coaster bot!!
Started 19th July 2015,
made bad videos,
made better videos,
made good videos,
here we are today.
COASTER BOT insert Andrew joins between better to good
There you go!
Yes please also make a video on the history of modern coasters (and talk about launches and lifts a bit more please, I missed that a little in this video)
Will do! :)
I wish it was longer :( would you consider making a part 2 of this? I would like to see more about the origin of some other coaster models such as the Invert, Launch and RMC
That would all be covered in "A Brief History of Modern Day Roller Coasters", explaining the last 40 years of rapid innovation in the sector of ride design :)
COASTER BOT nice
i looove how you include lots of videos of coasters from uk theme parks, you really showcase well the great rides we have here :))
Well I've started to use more and more of my own footage, which right now, happens to mainly be from UK parks. By the end of the year, you'll see footage from a larger range of European parks :)
COASTER BOT ahh gotcha, the footage is really good nonetheless, can’t wait to see more :)
this video is very educational and great! i was into roller coasters ever sense i was very little and been studying them ever sense. having so much fun riding the coasters of today and excited to see what is to come in the future!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! That's awesome to hear. There's a lot more to come in the future :)
This video is awesome! I love learning more about the history of my favorite things, which are rollercoasters! Harry if you did more videos on rollercoaster history that would be amazing! 🎢
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! I'll consider doing more videos about roller coaster history in the future :)
My first one was the Python in Efteling back in the days it was Europe's biggest rollercoaster. Now we have hybrids, inverted, flying, dive, wing, stand up, mega, hyper and 4D coasters . And you know what ? I love it how rollercoasters are evolving. The higher the faster the longer the better! 🎢
Times definitely have changed!
Nice!
Tiny quibbles:
1. The Russians didn’t call them Russian mountains; that name started with the French.
2. The Revolution didn’t open at Six Flags Magic Mountain; it opened at Magic Mountain.
😁
The first one makes sense actually ha ha. The second is neither here nor there really.
COASTER BOT The funny thing is that Russians now call roller coasters American mountains.
The French word for roller coaster is still montagne russe :)
Emilie Poirier 👍
Emilie Poirier that's true for italy too, where they are called both montagne russe (russian mountains), ottovolanti (flying eights) and more recently roller coasters
Can you do "Disneyland Explained?"
I'll note that down, thanks for the suggestion :)
Southern California paving the way for roller coaster with Disneyland, Knott’s berry farm and six flags magic mountain!!
This was great! I have been on a few of the coasters that you showed in the video Storm Runner, Leap the Dips which is sad that it hasn't been run in over a year and I've gone to a few Altoona Curve games and I can see Skyliner deteriorate due to them just ignoring it while they renovate the rest of the park, and if that's happening to Skyliner, I bet that's happening to Leap the Dips too. I have been on SooperDooperLooper, Dominator and Comet. When you were saying about Racer at Kings Island being the fastest roller coaster of it's time is pretty cool fact because I experienced that on it's clone Rebel Yell, that coaster blew me away at how fast it was for a wooden roller coaster. It's faster than some steel coasters.
I swear, I learned more from this than in school. Very educational!
ha ha awesome, thanks for watching! :)
Gotta love this channel!!
Thanks that means a lot :)
COASTER BOT wish I could live your life. I love coasters
Very nicely presented.
Thank you :)
So many Thorpe park roller coasters were included in this video. Nice. :D
Thank you :D this makes my day again!
No problem, thanks for watching! :)
PLEASE MORE OF THESE!!!
No, thank you! :)
There's an ice slide still in operation in Quebec City. It's at the end of the Cliffside boardwalk. $2cad to drag a sled up treacherous stairs and ride down. Lots of fun during winter festival
Very interesting video! A modern coaster history video would be great!
Awesome, thanks for watching :)
Fascinating video! 👀
Thanks :)
Fantastic video, highly informative! Have you ever thought about doing a video or series on infamous roller coaster/theme park accidents? While it’s obviously a grim and morbid topic, those accidents gave rise to the adoption of new safety technologies and failsafes in order to ensure that they never happened again.
Thank you! Accidents are a pretty grim topic, and I'd rather not help to bring them up, or spread false information about them. It's a very dangerous topic to cover correctly, and therefore I probably won't, but you never know moving forwards.
Great video, and of course we’d like to know more about the history of modern rollercoasters!!
Thank you, and awesome! :)
Awesome Harry great Video👌😀
Thanks! :)
Aah man now im just getting visions of Rasputin losing his shit sliding down the wooden mountain in a very brief moment of jovality. fantastic stuff.
Excellent work. well presented and very watchable 😀👍
Thank you! :)
It's funny how I could now calculate the profile of a mostly constant G-force loop within minutes. But this, now relatively simple, maths actually delayed the use of inversions for many decades.
Also 1895?! I had no clue the first inversion was that old!
Awesome video man
BTW: Yes! Of course I'd like to know more about the history of modern rollercoasters!
Thank you! :)
I see it as engineering finally catching up with rising standards for personal safety.
The other thing that helped was the idea of tubular steel rails, which made it possible to build layouts that twisted around in three dimensions in ways that were not possible with the other technologies of the time. You don't necessarily need that for a vertical loop, but you do for a corkscrew, which was actually the first inversion of the modern era (though vertical loops followed immediately after).
You should do a what is on the Matterhorn bobsleds, since it's probably the ride which changed the industry forever
Great suggestion, I'll note it down :)
I swear to god I used to do a series just like this but instead i explained the brief history of a roller coaster. For example stealth or wicker man. Either way nice job 👍
That's interesting to hear, thanks :)
I wouldn't mind a more in-depth sequel!
Awesome! :)
This was a very cool video!!!
Awesome, thanks! :)
Thats awesome. You definatly dont think of coasters when you think of the 1800s.
Make this a series!!!! Please. Lol
"A Brief History of" series?
Fantastic as always
Thank you! :)
Great video Harry.We want more
Thank you! More will come :)
Always learn a lot here. Thanks for the awesome history!
No problem, thanks for watching! :)
I like this. we need videos about the history of the world's famous thrill parks (parks including rollercoasters)
We kind of do that already, take a look at the videos in this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLgXBm_6bUj6QgHHQMpAWwDKv3G9_MlTJh
You know this video is quality when Harry say furry juice
NovaScienceNever yeeeee
How do bending and folding roller coasters provide a new riders experience every time? I feel like we’d know what to expect
Awesome video thanks for sharing and keep on making more videos like this please.
Thank you, and thanks for watching :)
I really can't wait to visit an international park with a scenic railway. I don't believe we have any in the US.
Great video, very informative and nice to see UK and US rides featured.
Do you do an overall video that shows the history of manufacturers over the years?
Thank you! We do have some videos, and are planning to do more in the future. They can all be found here: ruclips.net/p/PLgXBm_6bUj6SeB9y8rIhuchw_8hSkOo_7
I had to watch this video for school
Awesome!
I want more!
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know :)
This video is great!
Thank you! :)
Great video on the history of roller coasters!
Thank you! :)
You know who we have to thank for Mass produced steel coasters.
The One, The Only
B.A. Schiff
Part 2 please!!
Will do boss!
Amazing
Thank you :)
First two clips are thorpe park nemisis inferno and saw
Indeed they are :)
I went there i was gonna go on saw but me mum diddnt lol
Funny story, I was snooping through my grandpa's computer and I found my 8th grade research paper on roller coasters (I don't even remember writing it. Also funny because I was terrified of roller coasters at the time). It had a lot of this info!! Turns out I was into roller coasters before I was into roller coasters.
Oh wow that's awesome! :)
Very informative! Great video!
Thank you! :)
The way you pronounce "montagnes russes" is soooooo cute! Anyway, congrats for pronouncing the "u" right, I know Americans and Brits still unable to pronounce it correctly after 20+ years living in France.
Very interesting video as always!
ha ha thank you very much, I tried my best with "montagnes russes" but I know it'll never be perfect :)
Great video as always! 👍
Thank you! :)
More intresting stuff pls
You'd like to hear about modern day roller coasters instead?
Yes please :)
To be fair, by the end of the edwardian era, they had figured out the tear drop shape of a loop, but because of the unpopularity of those earlier coasters, they weren't ridden and were very unpopular despite being comfortable.
Indeed, it's very interesting actually. It almost would have been better to invent the loop later, then it would have remained popular!
@@coasterbot nah, everybody loves 12G loops lol. I saw a patent from 1904 for an underwater rollercoaster which obviously wouldn't work cuz water but it looks like the side friction coasters but with a piece on top making it look like a unstapled staple that had a proto-upstop wheel but it was used to keep the coaster train from floating and keeping it on the track when going underwater. But prior to that, like months prior, I thought of "how would the Victorians make upstop wheels" and the track design I created was exactly the same as this patent I had never seen, thought I'd share.
I went to Knott's Berry Farm this past saturday April 27 2019 i love the wooden coaster Ghost Rider and the Pony express what a ride!
Awesome, I hope you had a great time :)
Every time I see a coaster bot upload I immediately watch it. Good video!
Thank you! :)
So, we have the Russians to thank for these things.
*plays earrape version of the soviet national anthem on full blast*
Gooby plz
COASTER BOT what does that mean, comrade?
Google it
It probably means something that British people say and the other people around the world don't know what it means.
It's not British at all
So much Hershey Park...
Yay!!!!!!
Of course i want another video!
Awesome!
Yes please I really liked this video
That's great to hear, thanks for watching :)
A great educational video.
Thanks! :)
Great video thanks
No, thank you for watching! :)
Yes!!! Teachers please listen to Brendan Ferris!
I think I spotted 5 Alton Tower sights including Smiler twice, I saw nemesis, Wickerman and Galactica, tell me if I’m wrong but that’s what I thought I saw
My 7th graders fell asleep during this video.. Thank you
Awesome video friend
Thank you! :)
1:13 damn that guy ha sgood balance
Great Video ( like every video ), would you mind doing a history of how modern themeparks came about please, if that's okay ? :)
That's a great suggestion, what exactly would you like to hear about specifically? I imagine it'd quite a wide topic
I would like to hear about the history of how high budget theme parks, the first one being Disneyland in Anaheim, spread across the USA and specifically I'm interested in the patterns that happened in the theme park world in terms of success and failure :)
also the pattern of the evolution of the parks
in terms of when each park was created
Jackrabbit is the first with upstop wheels
I never questioned their origins. I was like they are here ant that is great.
Understandable :)
Can you do twisted cyclone explained
I'll note that down, thanks for the suggestion :)
you showed Silverwood for corkscrew!!!!!
That's because Corkscrew currently lives there! :)
I just said that because I love Silverwood!
Very nice video but we need history of digestives next please :)
Thanks! One day maybe ;)
Love it!
Thanks Glenn :)
So proud of the Motherland!
Please do what is giga coaster
I used it for my school project
But what about Giant Dipper at Belmont Park
5am: Well I should go to sleep. *coaster bot video appears* Wait, nevermind
Understandable, have a great no sleep
Thorpe park :3
"Once In your lifetime"
Me: bruh this man fr? I've been on roller coasters since I was 6. Lmfao 😂😂
LOL you even liked it.
So that's why they are called "Russian Mountains" in my language haha
Really well put-together video!
Thank you very much!
I would like to help the quality of the channel by suggesting that you don't use passive voice.
Check our some of our newer stuff. I often switch between passive and active voices depending on the exact thing I'm explaining. :)
In Spanish we call roller coasters "montaña rusas" which of course also works for Russian mountain
So the first "coasters" were essentially life-size pinewood derby tracks.
Nemisis Inferno or Batman the Ride B&M Invert? Btw this is a coaster enthusiast in training’s educational staple.
I'd probably go with Batman: The Ride, but I have only ridden Inferno