Editing Wave pool (section)

==History==
[[File:Gellért Gyógyfürdő, hullám medence. Fortepan 26787.jpg|thumb|upright|A 1936 photo of the wave pool, constructed six years prior at [[Gellért Baths]] in Budapest]]

The origins of wave pools go as far back as the 19th century, as famous fantasy castle builder [[Ludwig II of Bavaria]] electrified a lake to create breaking waves.

In 1905, the "Undosa" swimming platform was built on Lake Starnberg in Germany, which used large pontoons to force the lake water to make waves. It has since been converted into a restaurant.

In 1912, the "Bilzbad" in [[Radebeul]], Germany was the first public wave pool built on the ground.<ref name="WorldintheCurl">Peter Westwick & Peter Neushul, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xv5Xz-lHCokC&pg=PA233 The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing]</ref> It used a wave machine, also called "Undosa," first exhibited the previous year at the [[International Hygiene Exhibition]] in [[Dresden]].<ref>See [[:de:Bilzbad]].</ref><ref>Volker Helas, ''Stadt Radebeul'', State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Saxony, Radebeul, Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in Saxony. SAX publishing house, Beucha 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-86729-004-3}} , p. 203</ref> It still operates.

Another early public wave pool was designed and built in 1927<ref>{{cite web|last=Karpati|first=Zoltan|date=1 May 2010|title=Gellért Fürdő|url=http://muemlekek.info/muemlek/gellert-furdo.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100517052736/http://muemlekek.info/muemlek/gellert-furdo.php|archive-date=May 17, 2010|access-date=16 December 2017|website=Muemlekek.info|language=hu}}</ref> in [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]] in the known [[Gellért Baths]], and appeared in one of [[James A. Fitzpatrick]]'s documentary ''Traveltalks'' films about the city in 1938, as one of the main tourist attractions.<ref>{{cite web|title=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Bfpi0ZxlU|access-date=16 December 2017|website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> It remains open.

The [[natatorium]] at [[Bayocean, Oregon]] also had an early wave-generating machine, before it was destroyed by natural ocean waves in 1932.

A 1929 Pathe Pictorial film featured "Indoor Surfers" frolicking in small, artificially-generated waves in a swimming pool in Munich, Germany. The waves were created by agitators which pushed waves through the diving area and into a shallow area - where kids were bodysurfing little waves: "This is the new kind of swimming bath that is becoming the rage of Germany," one of the captions reads. "No more placid waters for bathers - the mechanism behind the netting keeps everything moving."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz_A6VDUbSI Indoor Surfers! (1929)], Pathe Pictorials, [[YouTube]]</ref>

In 1939, a public swimming pool in [[Wembley]], [[London]], was equipped with machines that created wavelets to approximate the soothing ebb and flowing motion of the ocean. In the 1940s, [[Palisades Amusement Park]], located on the [[The Palisades (Hudson River)|Hudson River Palisades]] across from [[New York City]], installed a large waterfall at one end of its salt water pool, the largest of such in the world at the time,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.palisadespark.com/faqs.html#pool|title=Palisades Amusement Park Historical Society|website=www.palisadespark.com|access-date=2018-07-16}}</ref> which generated small waves much like those in Wembley.

In 1966, [[Akiruno]], [[Japan]]'s "Summerland Wavepool", nicknamed the "Surf-a-Torium", was the first wave pool accessible to surfers (though only for 15 minutes every hour).<ref name="WorldintheCurl"/>
 
Several locations claim to have developed the first wave pool in the [[United States]], including [[Big Surf]] in [[Tempe, Arizona]] and [[Point Mallard Park]] in [[Decatur, Alabama]], which both opened in 1969 (Point Mallard Park opened in 1970 so their claim would have to be inaccurate as is the information previous to this about them.) The first outdoor wave pool in the United States was opened on Memorial Day 1961 (May 29) at Oceana Park in [[Newbury, Ohio]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bellamy |first=Peter |date=July 15, 1961 |title=Fun This Weekend |pages=22 |work=Cleveland Plain Dealer |url=https://cleveland.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A122AFBBA107AC9E4%40NGPA-OHPD-127C3260260F395D%402437496-1276EB220D846B90%4055-1276EB220D846B90%40?search_terms=oceana%2Bpark&text=oceana%20park&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=122AFBBA107AC9E4&pdate=1961-07-15 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Ryder |first=Diane |date=August 3, 2017 |title=County Recorder Regales Audience with History Lesson |work=Geauga County Maple Leaf |url=https://www.geaugamapleleaf.com/news/county-recorder-regales-audience-with-history-lesson/ }}</ref>  One of three owners of Oceana Park, Miklos Matrai, holds [https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/3005207 US Patent 3005207], filed on January 13, 1959, and patented on October 24, 1961, which describes a specially constructed swimming pool having means for producing simulated ocean waves. An aerial photo of Oceana Park in 1966 can be viewed [https://vintageaerial.com/photos/ohio/geauga/1966/AGE/35/30?fbclid=IwAR3B9SWYYjkupQWDVRpVvTWY1h0u1Z41vXIIBmYEupzaRDoh23bSsuhXr0o here.]

The first indoor wave pool in the United States opened in 1982 at the Bolingbrook Aquatic Center in [[Bolingbrook, Illinois]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bolingbrook.com/index.php?page_id=58 |title=Timeline |access-date=2011-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706062849/http://www.bolingbrook.com/index.php?page_id=58 |archive-date=2011-07-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Opened in 1989, [[Disney's Typhoon Lagoon]] is one of the world's largest outdoor wave pools and the strength of the waves makes it possible to [[bodysurf]].