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| Picture No | 10528162 |
| Date | 1840s |
| Description | Grand Centrifugal Railway |
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Advertising flyer for the Grand Centrifugal Railway, an Extraordinary Novelty, 200 feet long, with a Virtical (sic) Circle, upwards of 40 feet in circumference. The centrifugal railway was an early form of rollercoaster, a loop-the-loop, 'on which a carriage of nearly 200lbs, containing a lady or gentleman, descends an inclined plane, passing round a vertical circle...turning the head of the individual downwards, and feet in the air...at the rate of 100 miles an hour.'
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| Source | Victorian advertisement, original loose printed material |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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