Ride Photos and Descriptions
Double Ferris Wheels
- The original Ferris wheel
- ...newspaper article about original
- London Eye (giant single wheel in London, with lots of photos and technical info)
- WienerRiesenRad (giant single wheel in Vienna—one of James Bond’s favorites!)
- “Wonder Wheel” (Ferris-wheel/RC combination?)
- Pressure and acceleration data from a Ferris wheel ride
- Frontier Village wheel (good views of framework)
- Irvine Harvest Festival wheel photos
- Digital Artwork: Ferris Photos
- “Space Wheels”—a twin double Ferris wheel
- One Last Wheel
Roller Coasters
- Coney Island "Thunderbolt"
- ...different view
- More Coney Island
- Banked curve on Cyclone (Coney Island)
- “Wild One” at Six Flags America, Largo, MD
- Lots of parks...
- “Bobcoaster” review of Six Flags, St. Louis
- “Bobcoaster” home page
- Mine Diver—technical data from the manufacturer of this ride in a park in South Africa
- Roller Coaster Data Base: a fairly thorough listing of roller coasters around the world. Contains statistics (height, length of track, duration, etc.) and photos.
- Roller Coaster History (Discovery Channel)
Scrambler rides
- Santa Claus, Indiana
- The Story of the Cycloid
- David Burton’s Scrambler Collection
- More photos
- What the critics say (maybe a way to jazz up your ride?)
- Velocity and Acceleration vectors
Interactive Sites
- Ferris Wheel Demo (java)
- Double Ferris Wheel (java sketchpad)
- Roller Coaster Video Clips (Discovery Channel)
- Mathematical design considerations (not actually an interactive site...but potentially useful for double ferris wheel and scrambler rides)
- Physics simulator applet (Java) (roller coaster)
- “Build a Coaster” (Discovery Channel)
- Scrambler simulator (java sketchpad)