Roller skates the benefits they list include: Roller skates Roller skates are shoes, or bindings that fit onto shoes, that are worn to enable the wearer to roll along on wheels. The first roller skate was effectively an ice skate with wheels replacing the blade. Later the "quad" style of roller skate became more popular consisting of four wheels arranged in the same configuration as a typical car. While the first reported use of roller skates was on a London stage in 1743, the first patented roller skate was introduced in 1760 by Belgian inventor John Joseph Merlin. His roller skate wasn't
Merlin (poem) the future. The story of "Merlin" is related to Robert de Boron's two other poems that also feature Merlin as an integral character. First recast into prose c. 1210, the three poems ("Joseph", "Merlin", and "Perceval") can also form the trilogy known as "Le Roman du Graal", which tells the story of the Arthurian myth as completely rewritten for the Holy Grail: brought from the Middle East to Britain by followers of Joseph of Arimathea, the Grail is eventually recovered by Arthur's knight Percival as foretold in one of the prophecies in "Merlin". "Merlin" begins with the scene of a