Editing Roller coaster (section)

===Popularity, decline, and revival===
By 1919, the first [[underfriction]] roller coaster had been developed by [[John Miller (entrepreneur)|John Miller]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://patimg2.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=01319888&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page|title=Patent Images|website=patimg2.uspto.gov|access-date=2010-03-25|archive-date=2017-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728194717/http://patimg2.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=01319888&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page|url-status=dead}}</ref> Over the next decade, roller coasters spread to amusement parks around the world and began an era in the industry often referred to as the "Golden Age". One of the most well known from the period is the historical ''[[Coney Island Cyclone|Cyclone]]'' that opened at Coney Island in 1927. The onset of the [[Great Depression]] in the 1930s, however, significantly impacted the amusement park industry and brought an end to the rapid growth experienced during the Golden Age. This aside, roller coasters were still built with varying success from location to location. In May 1932, the Scene Railway witnessed somewhat of a revival in the UK, including the opening of the [[Roller Coaster (Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach)|roller coaster at Great Yarmouth]]. Today it is one of only two scenic railways still in operation in the UK.<ref>[https://riderater.co.uk/9040/east-england-theme-parks-during-covid-19/ East England theme parks during COVID-19]. ''RideRater''. 13 June 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2023.</ref>

In 1959, [[Disneyland]] introduced a design breakthrough with ''[[Matterhorn Bobsleds]]'', the first permanent roller coaster to use a tubular steel track. Designed by [[Arrow Development]], the tubular track was unlike standard rail design on wooden coasters, allowing the track to bend in sharper angles in any direction, leading to the incorporation of loops, corkscrews, and inversion elements into track layouts. A little more than a decade later, the immediate success of ''[[Racer (Kings Island)|The Racer]]'' at [[Kings Island]] in 1972 sparked a new era of roller coaster enthusiasm, which led to a resurgence across the amusement park industry over the next several decades.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}
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