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2. 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.

3. Roller skates - Wikipedia

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   A pair of roller skates. Roller skates are shoes or bindings that fit onto shoes that are worn to enable the wearer to roll along on wheels. The first roller skate was an inline skate design, effectively an ice skate with wheels replacing the blade. Later the "quad skate" style became more popular, consisting of four wheels arranged in the same ...

4. Roller skating - Wikipedia

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   1880s: Roller skates were being mass-produced in America. This was the sport's first of several boom periods. Micajah C. Henley of Richmond, Indiana produced thousands of skates every week during peak sales. Henley skates were the first skate with adjustable tension via a screw, the ancestor of the kingbolt mechanism on modern quad skates.

5. James Leonard Plimpton - Wikipedia

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   James Leonard Plimpton (1828, Medfield, Massachusetts - 1911) was an American inventor who is known for changing the skating world with his patented roller skates in 1863. . Plimpton's roller skates were safer and easier to use than the existing versions, his "rocker skates" or quad skates allowed people to steer by simply leaning to the left or the r

6. Gloria Nord - Wikipedia

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   There are 4000 arena roller rinks in the country to less than 200 ice rinks, 20 roller-skaters for every ice-skater. Once the sport of roughnecks, roller-skating has been taken up by the best people of all ages. [1] In 1944, Nord appeared in a roller-skating scene with Betty Grable in the motion picture, "Pin Up Girl."

7. 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 skates with a two-by-two wheel arrangement similar to a car.