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Coney Island Hall of Fame

William F. Mangels, the “Wizard of Eighth Street,” was a machinist and a scholar. He immigrated from Germany in 1883 at age sixteen and by 1886 had a small machine shop in Coney Island where he made cast-iron targets for shooting galleries. Mangels then began studying patents and inventing mechanisms for rides. In 1901 he patented [...]

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