213: Unexpected Origin of Roller Skates
Brain Junk
English - May 31, 2022 08:17 - 10 minutes - 8.16 MB - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The first roller skates were patented by John Joseph Merlin in 1760. He showed off his new fangled wheeled shoes with an epic entrance to a party that ended not quite how he thought it would.