Lamarcus Adna
THOMPSON
(b.
8 March 1848
,
Jersey, Licking, Ohio, USA
d.
8 March 1919
,
Glen Cove, New York, USA
)
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Lamarcus Adna THOMPSON was born 8 March 1848 in Jersey, Licking, Ohio, USA. Lamarcus Adna THOMPSON was the child of ? and ?
Lamarcus Adna THOMPSON died 8 March 1919 in Glen Cove, New York, USA.
Occupation: American inventor and businessman most famous for developing a variety of gravity rides and Roller coasters
son of Adna Thompson and Nancy Thompson
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1848 Birth
8 March 1848
Jersey, Licking, Ohio, USA- 1884 - The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)
'1884: The first gravity roller coaster designed and built specifically as an amusement ride opens at Coney Island, New York. It is a commercial success and leads to the building of roller coasters all over the world.
LaMarcus Adna Thompson’s Coney Island coaster, which, for a nickel ($1.15 in today’s money), hurtled passengers down an undulating 600-foot-long track at speeds up to a blistering 6 mph, would hardly be recognizable to riders of ...Read MORE...
wired.com/ 2011/ 06/ 0616gravity-roller-coaster 
1919 Death
8 March 1919
Glen Cove, New York, USA
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