Which sentence from the passage does not support the author's claim?
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A French businessman tried to bring the concept to France, but the milder
weather melted
the ice.
Eventually, the idea made its way to America, where an old railroad track
was converted into a
more modernized version of the roller coaster.
Tom Harris, contributing writer for How Stuff Works, writes, "By the 1920s,
roller coasters were in full swing
, with some 2,000 rides in operation
around the country."
A new idea to place wheels on the sleds and use wax instead of ice gave
way to the next step in roller-
coaster history.