2006-09-11 12:40:03 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
A skateboard is a narrow wheeled platform used for recreation and transportation. Though the exact date of invention of skateboards is unknown, it was in the 1940s and 1950s that children participated in 'soap-box derbys', where they would race soap-boxes attached to wooden planks on rollerskate wheels. During events like this, some of the soap-boxes became detached from the planks, leaving the rider with what was a skateboard.
The first skateboards were made by taking a roller skate apart and attaching it to a two-by-four. These early skateboards were often used by surfers as a substitute when the waves were low.
The skateboard has evolved a lot since the first mass produced models in the 1960s. Boards in the past were often in the shape of a surfboard, with no concave and constructed of solid wood or plastic. The wheels were usually made of a 'clay' composite or steel and the trucks (axles) were less sturdy and initially of a 'single action' design compared to today's 'double action'. Skateboards can even be used as and are now considered weapons, as airports ban skateboards from coming aboard.
2006-09-11 13:02:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who Invented The First Skateboard
2016-12-26 12:16:52 · answer #2 · answered by watkin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who Invented The Skateboard
2016-10-07 04:19:58 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well todays skateboards were just an upgrade of what we had as kids.
The first skateboard was a 2x4, with a rollor skate nailed to the bottom. How really invented it is still a wounder but the person who improved it is the person who copyed a idea we kids had when we were little
2006-09-11 13:01:39 · answer #4 · answered by goldwing127959 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Wikipedia - no one specific invented the skateboard as the skateboard was a smaller version of a soapbox car used in the soapbox derby.
2006-09-11 13:02:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Polish professor Jokin Skatti. He have been given bored at paintings sometime, and got here up with the Skatti-Bored, which the Western international got here to comprehend with the aid of fact the skateboard. (Are teenagers at school rather doing paintings initiatives approximately skateboards? No ask your self they might't spell)
2016-11-07 03:21:30 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On August 17, 1993, patent #5,236,208 was issued to Thomas Welsh for a platform steerable skateboard.
2006-09-11 13:16:14 · answer #7 · answered by bob_shlo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Al Gore
2006-09-11 13:04:07 · answer #8 · answered by pattycake 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marty McFly in 1955
2006-09-11 13:16:49 · answer #9 · answered by PC_Load_Letter 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know for sure, can probably find it on the 'net but I'm in a hurry. I just want to say I'm glad they did and collect my 2 pts for Level2! Good ? though.
2006-09-11 12:48:31 · answer #10 · answered by broham85 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋