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 (game) electronic synthesizer. In 1978 Merlin appeared with Milton Bradley's Simon on the cover of the Christmas issue of "Newsweek" and the October issue of "Boston". The Toy Manufacturers of America named Merlin the best selling toy and game item (SKU) in America in 1980 (2.2 million sold). In 1995, Parker Brothers redesigned Merlin, including making it a one-player game with more challenges called "Merlin: the 10th Quest". The premise of Merlin was still the same, but for each game completed, an icon was displayed on the screen showing proof of victory. Instead of the six games from the original, there