Thomas Silber

Thomas Henry Silber (born November 1, 1956) is a Zimbabwean roller coaster designer and engineer. He is the chief of design for SED-Hopkins, beginning his career in the amusement industry as a protégé of.

Life and career
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In 1977, Silber moved to to get an engineering degree. He worked with traveling showmen to pay his living costs, setting up traveling roller coasters for Oktoberfests and fairs, and it was through showman Rudolf Barth that Silber was introduced to.

In 1982, Silber's first coaster he designed himself, Donner-Looping, debuted on the German fair circuit. In 1986 it was sold to Billings' Wild Kingdom and became Thunderbolt 200.

In 2000, he designed the Gerhard and Ingrid Schachner-owned EuroForce, the first ever portable coaster with a cable lift, with the cable lift mechanism itself, by this point, only being used on one coaster.

In 2011, he proposed the first ever portable LSM Launch coaster.