Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a variety of natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from Miami.
Figure skating has developed from a practical way to get around on ice into the elegant mix of art and sport it is today. Early pioneers. The Dutch were arguably the earliest pioneers of skating. They began using canals to maintain communication by skating from village to village as far back as the 13th century.
The first known inventor of an inline roller skate was John Joseph Merlin. John Joseph Merlin. 1  John Merlin was born September 17, 1735 in Huys, Belgium.  He was the first recorded person to invent a roller skate, doing so in the 1760s in London, England.