The Incredible Scream Machine: A History of the Roller Coaster [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Cartmell, Robert

 
9780879723422: The Incredible Scream Machine: A History of the Roller Coaster [Idioma Inglés]

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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.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Robert Cartmell is professor in drawing and printmaking at the State University of New York at Albany. For America's Bicentennial in 1976 he initiated and organized an exhibit of the complete history of the roller coaster titled Coast to Coast Coasters. The exhibit, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, toured the United States for two years.

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