Four years later, Robert John Tyers received the first English roller skate patent. His skate was a wooden sole with three wheels attached in a line. The first patented roller skate was designed by French inventor C.L.
Van Lede’s work did not get much attention, perhaps because he had to flee Paris during the French Revolution and leave behind his invention. While living in Paris, Maximiliaan Lodewijk van Lede attached wooden wheels to an iron sole plate and dubbed it the patin à terre, or land skate. The violin was destroyed, and Merlin was injured.Īnother Belgian inventor took a crack at roller skates around 1790. Unable to control his speed or direction, he crashed into a large mirror and shattered it. At a masquerade ball in 1760, he reportedly played a violin as he attempted to glide around on roller skates. Renowned for his museum of clocks, musical instruments, and automatons, Merlin lived in London where he was a favorite at high society parties. ( Here's the science behind ice-skating.) Merlin’s invention featured metal wheels arranged in a line, like the blade of an ice skate, on the bottom of a wooden sole. An unnamed Dutchman strapped to his shoes strips of wood with wooden spools on the bottom, known as “skeelers.” They quickly broke.Īnother famous early attempt to skate on wheels was made by an eccentric Belgian inventor, John Joseph Merlin. One of the first recorded attempts to put wheels on shoes took place in the 1700s.
( What does 'skating on thin ice' sound like?) In-line adventures Archaeologists found evidence that people in Scandinavia fashioned ice skates from animal bones, pioneering the oldest human powered means of transport. The precursor to roller-skating- ice-skating-is vastly older and can be dated as far back as 1800 B.C. As models changed and improved over the years, skating fads bloomed in Europe and the United States throughout the 19th century. This pastime may seem like a quintessentially 20th-century phenomenon, but wheeled shoes first rolled out as early as the 1700s. During the 2020 pandemic, roller-skating made a big comeback, as people looked for safe ways to have fun during quarantine.
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