1-155-526 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

Waitresses on roller skates in a Berlin beer cellar, 1851. The first recorded roller-skates appeared in London in 1760 and the first successful ones date from the early 1820s. It was not until 1863 that the modern roller-skate was patented by the American Joseph Plimpton. From The Illustrated London News. (1 November 1851).