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  2. Roller skates - Wikipedia

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    The first roller skate was an inline skate design, effectively an ice skate with a line of wheels replacing the blade. In modern usage, the term typically refers to skates with two pairs of wheels on shared axles like those of skateboards (early versions of which were made using roller skate parts). Skates with this configuration are also known ...

  3. Frank Nasworthy - Wikipedia

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    The factory had experimented with a polyurethane roller skate wheel that was sold to Roller Sports Inc., which supplied wheels for rental skates at roller rinks. The rationale was that a softer wheel with improved grip would help novice roller skaters, but the wheel was largely rejected by roller skaters who favored the hard steel wheels that ...

  4. Roller skating - Wikipedia

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    Others resemble freeline skates in that they have a small squarish platform, but with 2 medium-sized wheels on either side, somewhat between a freeline skate and roller skates (but with inline-skate-styled wheels). Orbit wheel skates, another spiritual relative of the freeline skate whereby the skate stands on a grip-tape-surfaced platform ...

  5. Inline skates - Wikipedia

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    Urban skates Hockey skates. Inline skates are boots with wheels arranged in a single line from front to back, allowing a skater to roll along on these wheels. Inline skates are technically a type of roller skate, but most people associate the term roller skates with quad skates, another type of roller skate with a two-by-two wheel arrangement similar to a car.

  6. Heelys - Wikipedia

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    Heelys (formerly known as Heeling Sports Limited) is an American brand of roller shoe (marketed by Heelys, Inc.) that have one or more removable wheels embedded in each sole, similar to inline skates, allowing the wearer to walk, run, or, by shifting their weight to their heels, roll.

  7. Artistic roller skating - Wikipedia

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    Skaters may choose wheels based on their skating discipline and the floor type they are skating on (wood, sport court, concrete, etc.). Normally, a harder wheel with more slip is used for turn figures. Figure skaters often elect to use a mix of wheel hardnesses on their skates to optimize turning and acceleration, with a softer "push" wheel.

  8. The Frantz Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1937, Frantz entered the conveyor wheel and semi-precision ball bearing business leveraging its experience producing roller skate wheels. During World War II, millions of conveyor wheels and bearings were produced to supply conveyor manufacturers with component products to support the war effort and this established Frantz as a major ...

  9. Micajah C. Henley - Wikipedia

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    Micajah C. Henley was born on June 24, 1856, in Richmond, Indiana, to a Quaker family. [2] [3] Henley lived at 201 N. 14th Street in Richmond in his parents home. [2]M.C. Henley grew his business operation from a small outbuilding at the rear of his parents' home at 309 N 14th Street, to a large modern factory which he built on North 16th Street, employing over 300 people.

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