The manufacturer, Wicksteed, ballyhoo claim that the playground slide was invented by founder, Charles Wicksteed, and installed in Wicksteed Park in 1922, The discovery of Wicksteed's oldest slide was announced by the company in 2013.
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Water Slides Go Way BackThe first patented water slide in the U.S. was the Water-Toboggan Slide, by Herbert Sellner in 1923 in Faribault, MN. It consisted of a wooden slide which started with a down-ramp and then went out over a lake.