Roller skates 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 much more than an ice
Émile Merlin the Commission for Mathematics and Astronomy of the National Fund for Research in Spain. He was Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto 1924 ("Sur les lignes asymptotiques en géométrie infinitésimale") and Oslo 1936 ("Sur certains mouvements des fluid parfaits"). Émile Merlin Émile Alphonse Louis Merlin (12 October 1875, Mons – 29 July 29 1938, Le Bourg d'Oisans) was a Belgian mathematician and astronomer. Merlin attended the secondary school "Athénée royal de Bruxelles". He then studied at the University of Liège and the University of Ghent, where in 1900 he received his doctorate in mathematics. This was