Who invented skateboards first

One day his scooter broke so that it resembled more of a skateboard than a scooter — from that day on the kids started racing skateboards or broken scooters!

Roller skates go all the way back to approximately A patent for wheels that could be clamped on to shoes was created by a Belgium inventor named Joseph merlin. Going back to what we now understand as a modern-day skateboard, Stevenson started the Makaha skateboard company in to sell his surfboard type board on a mass-production scale. Jun 17, That's awesome, Lili!

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Sometime in the s, all over California, surfers got the idea to try surfing on pavement. It seems that several people got the idea at the same time. Skateboarding was just sort of spontaneously created, without guidance or planning. These first skateboarders started with wooden boxes or boards with roller skate wheels slapped on the bottom. Slowly, the wooden boxes with wheels turned into planks, and eventually companies were producing decks of pressed layers of wood -- similar to the skateboard decks of today.

To find out more about the history of skateboards , read " Skateboarding: A Brief History. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads.