Archaeo - Histories on Twitter: "Victorian high lace top roller skates, late 19th century. John Joseph Merlin, Belgian inventor, was first recorded person to invent a roller skate, London in 1760. Merlin
RollEgoli - Did you know? The invention of roller skates (1) is attributed to John Joseph Merlin (1735-1803) from Huy, Belgium. Around 1760, he had the idea of adapting ice skating to