Dutch Hans Brickner would have been the first to create skates in fixing wooden wheels under his shoes at the beginning of the 18th C. We lack archives and documents to determine for sure who the inventor of roller skates was. A few references to the practice of skating, dating back from 1743 in London (GB), can be found but unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any trace left of the inventor. Sam Nieswizski explained during an interview that nobody knew exactly if the wheels of those skates were inline or not. English documents mention a pair of inline skates with metal wheels. The first inline skates were inspired in large part by ice skates.
