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The Story Of Frank Zamboni
by Paul on 11/24/09 at 02:33 PM ET
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from Mike G. Morreale of NHL.com,
How amazing is it that a high-school dropout would have the ingenuity and foresight to invent the coolest and most important piece of machinery the sport of ice hockey ever has seen?
So goes the story of Frank Zamboni, the kid raised in Pocatello, Idaho, who was so sick and tired of watching workers manually resurface the ice with shovels and squeegees that he set out to do something about it.
It wasn’t long after he opened an outdoor skating rink in Paramount, Calif., in 1940 that Zamboni began designing a machine that would turn a three-man, 90-minute endeavor into a one-man, 10-minute job.
In 1949, he got his first single-operator resurfacer working and was granted a patent based on the design of the Model A, the world’s first self-propelled ice resurfacing machine. The unit never was used on any ice surface other than his skating rink at Paramount’s Iceland.
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