Inline skates
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Inline skates are boots with wheels arranged in a single line from front to back, allowing one to move in an ice skate-like fashion. Inline skates are a type of roller skate. Inline skates became prom
First patented wheeled skate - 1819
Plimpton prototype 1863-1866
Chicago Roller-Blade - 1965
CCM Tacks boot riveted to Super Street Skate ca. 1980
Rollerblade
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Rollerblade is a brand of inline skates owned by Nordica, part of the Tecnica Group of Giavera del Montello, Treviso, Italy.
Inline skates
…one to move in an ice skate-like fashion. Inline skates are a type of roller skate. Inline skates became prominent in the late 1980s with the rise of Rollerblade, Inc., and peaked in the late 1990s. The registered trademark Rollerblade has since become a generic trademark: "rollerblading" is now a verb for skating…
A Rollerblade Twister skate (c.2012)