![Just A Car Guy: A Thompson gravity switchback railway in front of the Arcadia Hotel, Santa Monica 1890. Just A Car Guy: A Thompson gravity switchback railway in front of the Arcadia Hotel, Santa Monica 1890.](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6VdifCXUwe4/WuQGjCgP6tI/AAAAAAAFHKk/3b6S8OMRHwcz99fCdC9D-TXc07uLJwo0gCLcBGAs/s1600/tumblr_oeovvsocwo1sdzmuoo1_1280.jpg)
Just A Car Guy: A Thompson gravity switchback railway in front of the Arcadia Hotel, Santa Monica 1890.
Barzanò&Zanardo - 💡 136 years ago, one of the 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 for a 𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 was granted to 𝑳𝒂𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒔 𝑨𝒅𝒏𝒂 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒔𝒐𝒏. 🎢 Thompson built the "𝑺𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚" in an amusement park
![Early Roller Coasters - 1870 - 1886 LaMarcus Thompson did NOT invent or build the first roller coaster in America Early Roller Coasters - 1870 - 1886 LaMarcus Thompson did NOT invent or build the first roller coaster in America](https://www.westland.net/coneyisland/articles/images/CoasterPatents-Small.jpg)