Carousel

A carousel (French carrousel, ring jousting '), formerly Marigold Riding, named in southern Germany Riding School in Austria carousel and Swiss ( colloquially ) Rösslispiel, is about a vertical axis rotating frame, is rotated by the people on seats of various kinds in a circle be. It is found in many variants as ride at fairs, carnivals and other amusement parks.

Carousel types

Slow moving carousels are usually provided with an annular array of vehicles or animals on which the passengers take place. Because of the low rate they have no safety bars. They are nowadays primarily intended for small children. Traditional carousel figures are wooden horse on which "ride" the passengers. To reinforce this idea, the horses move on some rides up and down while its circular journey.

Up and down it goes well with the waltz track, but faster and conditionally causing by the wave-like movements underground, circling on the rotating around itself gondolas.

When Kettenkarussell the individual seats are hung with chains on a turntable. The faster it spins, the more swing seats by the centrifugal force radially to the side. When Wellenflug the slewing ring is also tilted.

Tagada calls itself a round turntable that has a continuous down to input and output port bench at the edge. The passengers are pressed by centrifugal force into the seat back.

Quick propelled carousels are available in various variants. In some, the device is tilted or rotated during the trip. There are also models where the cabins over themselves while driving. Quick propelled carousel always have safety bars and are subject to the protection of passengers as well as slow-moving carousel very strict security checks by TÜV.

Carousel is also available as toys and children's playgrounds, there as a muscle-driven variants.

History

The earliest reports of carousel out of the former Byzantine Empire: In that time Turkish Philippopolis (now Plovdiv, Bulgaria) was the first Carousel at May 17, 1620 presented. The English traveler Peter Munday described this he also outlined eight seater, driven by human power curiosity as:

In the Middle Ages a kind of carousel was used to train knights. They took place outside on the carousel and had to try to pierce the arranged around the carousel rings with their lance. Since most people are right handed and therefore took the lance in his right hand, these carousels turned accordingly always counterclockwise. In the 18th century it was common to the baroque courts of Europe, that men like women on horses slight dexterity exercises were performing had to be where, for example, tried with a lance, aufzustecken small rings (hence the German term marigold riding). Later, the real horses were replaced by powered by human power precursor of the carousel.

The first motor-driven carousel was taken on January 1, 1863 in the English Bolton on a pottery market in operation. It was built by Thomas Bradshaw and was powered by a steam engine, probably through a transmission belt from. This design spread from England throughout Europe and came to America in 1870 for the first time.

From 1880, about the carousel horses were given, based on an invention of agricultural machinery factory Savage, the characteristic up and down movement that reinforces the impression of riding. In a particularly forceful and dramatic nature of the ups and downs in connection with the incessant rotation from Alfred Hitchcock was shown Strangers on a train in the final scene of the crime classic.

In Germany, the first carousel turned in 1780. Begun in November 1779 and was completed in October 1780 carousel is housed in a circular temple at an artificially raised mound in Wilhelmsbad, a former health resort in Hanau am Main. This unique in its kind structure seems thus to be the oldest existing carousel in the world, it is since February 2007 restoration.

World famous is the built in 1907 by Hugo Haase in Leipzig levels Carousel " El Dorado ". It was sold in 1910 for $ 150,000 to Coney Iceland, came in 1970 for the World Fair in Osaka and is now at the amusement park Toshimaen in Tokyo. Except for short periods of time, it is thus more than 100 years in operation.

Special tradition in France and Wallonia

To date, striking tradition is the carousel horses in the French-speaking regions of Europe. In France and Wallonia, the carousel in public spaces is constantly present in any other country. The fact that so many old carousels are still there, still in operation, goes back to the entertainment and folk festivals, established at the beginning of the 19th century. Both these festivals as well as their organization clubs were called Goguettes. These clubs were initially male choirs, but soon increasing emphasis on " wine, women and song " deliberate and more are at the Carnival clubs throughout Europe comparable, but with the difference that these festivals were celebrated vigorously outside the "fifth season ", like today, many markets operate a fairground. Countless Goguettes in almost every city donated for the population in general, these carousels, which have survived to this day.

Playground equipment

For playgrounds different carousel types are available, which are driven by the game ends. The turnstile is similar to the classic rides: there is a central axis, are arranged on the sites for each user. When carousel with mitdrehendem floor rotate not only the individual courses, but the entire carousel with the ground, grab bars and seats. Often it can be offset by a centrally mounted drive pulley to rotate. Rotation fungi and carousels have relocated to the top hub, can look at the user hold and attach. While filming the fungus fixture is rigid in the radial run there is moveably suspended handles. Railway Guided carousels consist of a circular path and it propelled, powered by muscle power user locations. Turntables eventually consist of a simple, rotatably mounted disk. The axis can be inclined.

Related Topics

• Centripetal force - physical force of circular motion