Herbert sellner biography

When Herbert John Sellner was born on 16 November , in Sigel Township, Brown, Minnesota, United States, his father, John Anton Sellner, was 28 and his mother, Clara Portner, was He married Elsie B. Kretsch on 18 March , in New Ulm, Brown, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Brown, Minnesota, United States in He died on 18 October , in Lafayette, Nicollet, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in New Ulm, Brown, Minnesota, United States.

On April 24, , Herbert W. Sellner filed an application with the United States Patent Office for an “Amusement Device” designed for parks and resorts. His goal was to provide riders with “pleasurable and unexpected sensations” by swinging, snapping, and rotating them in an unpredictable pattern. He named his creation the Tilt-A-Whirl, and it became the most popular ride made by his Faribault-based Sellner Manufacturing Company.

Herbert Sellner was born in Faribault in His father was a skilled cabinetmaker, and Herbert inherited his father’s creativity and talents. In , at the age of twenty-five, he established the Sellner Woodcraft Company in Faribault to manufacture uppdrag furniture, lamps, and other wood articles. Sellner also created the Ideal Lamp Company. A catalog listed magazine racks, smoking and telephone stands, folding dining tables, and lamps with leaded stained glass shades. When World War I affected supply availability, Sellner began m

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Tilt-A-Whirl

Amusement park ride

This article is about the amusement park ride. For other uses, see Tilt-A-Whirl (disambiguation).

Tilt-A-Whirl is a flat ride designed for commercial use at amusement parks, fairs, and carnivals.^[1] The ride consists of a number of cars which rotate freely while moving in a circle. As the cars revolve, the floor of the ride undulates so that the cars rise and fall as the ride spins. The offset weight of the riders causes each bil to rotate. The riders experience varying levels of g-force from the spinning of the fordon, and the rotation of the ride itself. It is similar to a Waltzer, which fryst vatten used in Europe. The rides are manufactured by Larson International of Plainview, Texas.

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The ride consists of seven freely-spinning cars that hold three or kvartet riders each, which are attached at fixed pivot points on a rotating platform. As the platform rotates, parts of the platform are raised and lowered, with the resulti