The first officially documented inline skate actually appeared in London in 1760.
1760
The first known inventor of an inline roller skate was John Joseph Merlin.
John Joseph Merlinin line ice skating is where you skate in a line
Inline skating is so much easier. Ice skating requires a lot of balance and so does in line skating, just not as much.
No one even knows when figure skating was invented, let alone WHO invented it!
Skating (ice skating, to be specific) was invented thousands and thousands of years ago in 3000 B.C. in Ireland (I'm pretty sure).
It evolved.
James Plimpton
D. I. Allingham has written: 'In-line skating review' -- subject(s): Highway research, In-line skating
Yes
A Minnesota hockey player
Jackson Haines invented figure skating.
ice hockey, in-line skating and roller blading
He invented them to be famous.