The first roller coaster was created by the Russians in the 1600,s. They where located near Saint Petersburg, people used sleds made of ice or wood to slide down enormous slides of ice and were slowed down with sand at the end of the ride. Those hills of ice were reinforced with wooden supports and usually reached up to 70 or 80 feet tall. Later, the French were amazed by the wonder of the russian mountains, they tried to make one but the ice in their country was constantly melting . So they decided to build them out of wax and they also added wheels to the sleds. In 1817 they created "The Russian Mountain of Belleville " which was the first roller coaster to have the sled attached to the rail. By the mid 1800´s roller coasters came to the
