Roller Skates
- Resource Type
- Topic overview
- Authors
- Salamone, Frank
- Source
- Technical Innovation in American History : An Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: Colonial America to 1865. 2019, p282-283.
- Subject
- Recreation
Roller skating
Inventions
Wheel bearings
Sporting goods
Patents
Skating rinks
Product development
Custom design
In-line skates
Roller skates
- Language
- English
Roller Skates John Joseph Merlin is given credit for inventing the first roller skates in 1760. They were inline skates, not quad skates. Quad skates were invented in 1863 by [...]