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Roller Skate

posted by Melissa P @ 10:34 AM
January 26, 2009

The first recorded years of roller skates was in 1743 in London. The skate was used as a stage performance. 17 years later John Merlin designed an inline skate with metal wheels.

By the 1880’s roller skates were being massed produced in America. Skates usually come in two different varieties, quad roller skates and inline skates or blades.

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