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Archived updates for Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Today in Patent History -- Roller Skates



On this day in 1869, Isaac Hodgson received U.S. Patent No. 88,711 for the "roller skate." By the 1880s roller skating had become a popular pastime. Learn more at the National Roller Skating Museum.
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