Home › Slide history › 1991: The FlowRider 📅 Slide history🇺🇸 Texas, USA1991 The FlowRider The first surf machine opened at Schlitterbahn.Tom Lochtefeld's Boogie Bahn sheet wave opens at Schlitterbahn. 🛝Slides in this story 🇺🇸 Schlitterbahn Boogie Bahn The world's first surf machine, still running in Texas since 1991.Tom Lochtefeld's first FlowRider sheet wave opened at Schlitterbahn New Braunfels in 1991 and still operates. 🧭Before and after 1989 Insano and Disney Brazil's Insano became the tallest slide in the world, and Disney opened Typhoon Lagoon.Disney enters the market; Beach Park's 41 m Insano becomes the tallest slide in the world. 1992 Space Bowl A giant bowl slide opened at Waterworld in Stoke-on-Trent.Waterworld Stoke-on-Trent opens a WhiteWater Space Bowl on 27 December 1992; bowls spread through the decade. All of Slide history →