General Adoption of the Rolling Skate, 1866. In 1863 an American, James L Plimpton, patented a 4-wheeled roller-skate, the forerunner of today's skates, and it was not long before the craze reached Britain. Cartoon from "Punch". (London, 17 February 1866).
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