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The Incredible Scream Machine: A History of the Roller Coaster
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Product Description: In 1984 America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device: La Marcus A. Thompson’s switchback railway, erected at Coney Island. Robert Cartmell examines every phase of roller coaster history, from the use of the roller coaster by Albert Einstein to demonstrate his theory of physics, to John Allen’s use of psychology in designing one...read more
By Robert Cartmell
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9780879723415 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, March 1, 1986, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: In 1984 America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device: La Marcus A.

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9780685559499 | Amusement Park Books, March 1, 1988, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In 1984 America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device: La Marcus A.
9780879723422 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, June 28, 1987, cover price $34.95

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