Ice skate 

(c 3000 B.C.E.)

Bone skates are used by Finns to go on the frozen ground.

Around 3000 BCE, the ice skate is thought to have been developed in Finland. Since ancient skate models have been discovered both in Russia and Scandinavia, scientists have long debated the precise origin of the sport. However, information showing residents of what is now southern Finland would have benefited the most from using the primitive blades surfaced in 2008. The moniker "the land of a thousand lakes" is an understatement for this nation, which is home to a whopping 187,888 of them. As a chilly country, Finland has thousands of frozen lakes during the winter, which has caused major transportation issues for the locals. With rowboats chained up until spring and lakes frequently dividing nearby settlements.The choices were to try to travel across the frozen water or figure out how to cross the treacherous terrain.

Large animal leg bones were used for the earliest skates. To attach the skates to the feet, holes were drilled into the ends of the bones and threaded with strips of leather. Skaters used thin poles, similar to skiers, to help them go forward, and it wasn't until the invention of iron runners in Holland in the fourteenth century that the usage of the poles was abandoned.

Inadvertently paying respect to the skate's roots on their nation's lakes, students in the Finnish city of Jyväskylä still skate over the city's dividing lake to get to class.Metal has been bonded to wood and metal to metal as the skate has evolved, but its essential ability to allow you to glide very smoothly across slick ice by maintaining your balance has kept it popular.

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